Sans Tache 



IN THE "elder days of art" each artist or craftsman en- 

 joyed the privilege of independent creation. He carried 

 through a process of manufacture from beginning to end. 

 The scribe of the days before the printing press was such a 

 craftsman. So was the printer in the days before the machine 

 process. He stood or fell, as a craftsman, by the merit or de- 

 merit of his finished product. 



Modern machine production has added much to the worker's 

 productivity and to his material welfare; but it has deprived 

 him of the old creative distinctiveness. His work is merged 

 in the work of the team, and lost sight of as something repre- 

 senting him and his personality. 



Many hands and minds contribute to the manufacture of a 

 book, in this day of specialization. There are seven distinct 

 major processes in the making of a book : The type must first 

 be set ; by the monotype method, there are two processes, the 

 "keyboarding" of the MS and the casting of the type from 

 the perforated paper rolls thus produced. Formulas and 

 other intricate work must be hand-set ; then the whole brought 

 together ("composed") in its true order, made into pages and 

 forms. The results must be checked by proof reading at each 

 stage. Then comes the "make-ready" and press-run and 

 finally the binding into volumes. 



All of these processes, except that of binding into cloth or 

 leather covers, are carried on under our roof. 



