In Harper’s, volume 75 from June 1887 there’s an article by R.R. Bowker on how books are printed, part of the magazine’s “Great American Industries” series. My favourite paragraph concerns attempts to replace human printers with “steam men”:
You may recognize the name R.R. Bowker from the company that bears his name; among other things the company produces Books in Print.
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