----------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