Sans Tache 
N 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 crafts- 
man, 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 personality. 
Many hands and minds contribute to the manufacture of a 
book, in this day of specialization. There are seven dis- 
tinct 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 andforms. ‘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 “without blemish’’—worthy books, 
worthily printed, with worthy typography—books to which 
