Sans Tache 



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

 man, by the merit or demerit of his finished product. 



Modern machine production has added much to the worker's pro- 

 ductivity 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 representing 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. 



The motto of the Waverly Press is Sans Tache. Our ideal is to manu- 

 facture books "without hleinish'" — worthy books, worthily printed, 

 with worthy typography — books to which we shall be proud to attach 

 our imprint, made by craftsmen who are willing to accept open 

 responsibility for their work, and who are entitled to credit for 

 creditable performance. 



