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Book Condition: Good (see description)
----------large (quarto) softcover, a solid Good exlibrary copy with minimal signs of use, usual library marks and stamps, 178 pages, b&w photos throughout, contents include: Introduction, Printing for the nation --- Printers and Politicians; Printing the HANSARD ---By Commission - Early Government Printers; The Queen's Printer, most expensive luxury about the Capital?; The Peripatetic print shop; From Independent Printer to Civil Servant --- UNDER CONTRACT - Partial Reform, the contarct system; Woes of a Contractor - Taylor's Trials; More Lice in the Typs - Patronage and Confidentail Printing; Putting on the Pious - Bogus Offers and the end of contarcts; Planning for Canada's Printing Requirements; The Department of Public Printing and Stationery --- BY GOVERNMENT --- Years of Turmoil - Building the printing plant; Printer's Pride - First permanent home; Working in the new Printing Bureau; Printer's Pride or Boodle Bureau?; A New Era - Composition by Machine; A HANSARD Service Unequalled in any part of the world; Into the Twentieth Century, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo
Title: IMPRESSIONS: Stories of the Nation's Printer - Early Years to 1900 / Produced for the Occasion of the Centennial of the Queen's Printer for Canada (includes a history for the HANSARD Service )
Illustrator: Photo Cover
Categories: Canadian History,
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Ottawa, Ontario, Ottawa, ON: Canadian Government Publishing Centre, siupply and Services Canada, 1990, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1990
ISBN Number: 0660121107
ISBN Number 13: 9780660121109
Binding: Soft Cover
Book Condition: Good (see description)
Inscription: Not Signed
Seller ID: 142857
Keywords: IMPRESSIONS: Stories of the Nation's Printer - Early Years to 1900 / Produced for the Occasion of the Centennial of the Queen's Printer for Canada (includes a history for the HANSARD Service )