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1893 Chicago Exhibition: Catalogue: Group 74

From Graces Guide

Note: This is a sub-section of 1893 Chicago Exhibition: Catalogue.

GROUP LXXIV.

Machines and Apparatus for Type-Setting, Printing, Stamping, Embossing, and for Making Books and Paper Working.


178 Byers & Co., Joseph J., 40 King Street, Cheapside, London, E.C. Improved Feister printing machine—cutting, printing, collecting, pasting, folding, and counting; articles of pergamoid printed on direct.

179 Caslon & Co., P. W., The Caslon Letter Foundry, 22 & 23 Chiswell Street, London, E.C. [Mfct. G.] Specimen books of printing types, and of brass types, and ornaments for bookbinders.

180 Hilder, Charles P., 33 Holborn Viaduct, London, E.C. The “Ideal” type distributing, composing and justifying machines, together with racks for holding types, arranged to show adaptability of machines for distributing and composing any fount of ordinary type (English and American standard), from pica to pearl (no special nicking being required); mechanism operated by keys similar to those used in best forms of typewriters.


  • Hare & Co., Limited. See Group CL.