CRABTREE PRESS FOR HIGH CLASS PRINTING. Special Catalogue No. 2.

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Oblong 4to. 9 x 11.75 inches. 36 pp. In limp card wrapper, hole punched with cord. Some wear to extremities, but otherwise a very good copy. Loosely inset: The 'Crabtree' patented Non-Stop Late News Device, [4] pp., folded, 5 photographic illustrations of presses and newspaper cutting on printing industry, c.1959. Illustrated throughout by photographs and by diagram. Decorated by title page vignette. Catalogue of high speed rotary printing presses manufactured by R. W. Crabtree and Sons Ltd, whose main works were situated in Leeds. The firm dates its origins to a textile machinery business of 1895, established by Richard William Crabtree and Alfred Horsfield, switching to printing in 1905. After 1920 it specialised in newspaper printing machinery and in 1966 it was acquired by Vickers to become Crabtree Vickers, which still exists. (crabtreevickers.co.uk Crabtree Vickers History, website). A scarce catalogue. INDUSTRY / INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES CATALOGUES INDUSTRY CATALOGUES 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED INDUSTRY / INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES. N° de ref. del artículo 28152

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