Excerpt from Offset Lithography: A Treatise on Printing in the Lithographic Manner From Metal Plates on Rubber Blanket Offset Presses, With Which Is Incorporated a Comprehensive Digest on Photo-Lithography and Also on Tin Plate DecoratingWhen this book was first offered to the lithographic public, in 1917, there was some doubt in the mind of its publisher as to whether there would be a demand for it that would result in sales enough to pay the cost of publication. At that time the offset press was be ing adopted by commercial lithographers, and being experimented with in color houses. Now the offset press is in use in practically every lithographic estab lishment in the United States, and the 1917 edition of Offset Lithography is entirely exhausted. Constant demands for copies of the book have induced us to issue this second edition. The close reader will find some changes in the text of this new edition and some addi tions to the information the first edition contained. It will be found interesting and instructive to every man who is connected with a lithographic establishment in any capacity. The apprentice who is learning the trade should not be without it, because it answers many of the questions which he is bound to ask. The journeyman will be interested in comparing the way lithographing is done now to the way it was done' in the old days. The man in the front office will also find it valuable to study in familiarizing himself with the lithographic business as it appertains to the offset process.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.