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

 enjoyed the privilege of independent creation. He 

 carried through a process of manufacture from begin- 

 ning 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 demerit 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 

 representing him and his personaUty. 



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 pro- 

 cesses, the ''keyboarding" of the MS and the casting of the 

 type from the perforated paper rolls thus produced. Formu- 

 las 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 manufacture books '^loithout blemish" — 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. 



