Lexicographical Neighbors of Handpresses
Literary usage of Handpresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1904)
"Her Infinite Variety," by Brand Whit- lock, contains twelve page illustrations
in photogravure, engraved on copper and printed singly on handpresses, ..."
2. The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians by John Gardner Wilkinson (1878)
"The two Egyptian handpresses were used in all parts of the country, but principally
in Lower Egypt, the grapes in the ..."
3. The Story of Books by Gertrude Burford Rawlings (1902)
"... and that even so late as the middle of the nineteenth century all books with
scarcely an exception were printed at handpresses which enabled two men to ..."
4. Guayule (Parthenium Argentatum Gray): A Rubber-Plant of the Chihuahuan Desert by Francis Ernest Lloyd (1911)
"... bundles,make up burro-loads, and take it to a neighboring “ campo de guayule,”
a field-center of operations, where the shrub is baled in handpresses. ..."
5. Oxf. Hist. Soc by Oxford Historical Society (1896)
"... was the Classical press-room—ie there men tugged at the handpresses of what
Archbishop Laud called the ' Learned Press'; and over their heads, ..."
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