{"newspaper_name": "The New York herald.", "edition": "01", "page": "p1", "byline": ""}
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Book AND jon PRINTING Rooms s-lhe BOOK
printing room is the third floor, and contains
three apartments in front and one IL the rear The
latter il used the press room and store room tor
paper but is so constructed to afford places tor
eight or ten printers when work IS throng. lhe
front rooms Can accommodate twenty easily Here
is kept large quantity at the various kinds OF type
necessary for that brarch, including variety tor
circulars and other light Jobs. In TINS department
are printed works in all languages, the proofs being
read and guaranteed correct, irrespective OF IN. au
thor's supervision; and II IS pretty well known that
some of the finest specimens OF book printing done
IN this city have been performed here.


The fourth story is exclusively taken up by the
jobblng department Heavy work is that which Is
mostly taken. All the theatrical printing OF New
York with trifiing exception or two Is done here
aud incredible quantity OF circulars is turned out
daily. Ten or twelve hands are daily employed
here-a larger number than is in any other office in
the city on similar work. The fiat is divided into
two rooms the front one is forty feet long, and is
that in which the compositors ply their labors. i
contains an endless variety of type suitable for all
The ramificaons and details of this description OF
work, and is surrounded by shelves laden with all
kinds of wooden type ever known, from ID inches
down to one inch in length.


The press room contains no less than six working
presses, including hydraulic OF high power, and
the largest press in this city for posting bills Here
ls list: super royal, double super royal,
one medium, one double medium, one foolscap, and
the hydraulic press Half of them are busy from
morning till night, and the quantity OF work done,
although immense, is steadily increasing. One
foreman of experience and intelligence has charge
of these two departments.