J. M. DENT & SONS:

The production photographs are from the Temple Press, circa 1935. Most of the images and captions appear in A Tour of the Temple Press by James Thornton, first published by J.M. Dent & Sons in 1935.

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• 1. Monotype Composing Machine.
• 2. Composing pages of type.

• 3. Overview of the Composing Room.

• 4. General view of the Composing Room.
• 5. A "forme" of 32 pages of type on the Compositor's trolley.

• 6. Making the mould or "flong" -- a mould with impression of type stands on the left

• 7. Hand-fed Miehle Double Cylinder Perfector printing machine at work

• 8. Detail of ink rollers and ink-slab on the Miehle printing machine

• 9. Chambers folding machine which can handle 64 page sheets (fed automatically)

• 10. General view of the "Women's Department" showing a battery of sewing machines used to assemble gatherings after folding
• 11. Detail of sewing folded gatherings of pages

• 12. Pressing books and trimming edges using the Smythe Continuous Trimmer

• 13. Burnishing the gold tops of books. In the background, tops of books are coated with color stain

• 14. The Murray two-unit forwarding machine used to round backs, make joints, glue and line backs

• 15. The Case-Making Department (i.e., assembling the book covers); in the background are the hydraulic presses for bound books

• 16. Pasting the covers on books using the Murray Casing-In machine

• 17. Opening up, examining each book, and wrappering in dust-jackets

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