Illustrated catalogue and price list of John Thomson Press Company's platen presses : for letterpress and color printing, embossing, bookcover stamping and paper-box cutting and scoring
A trade catalogue and price list issued in 1896 by the John Thomson Press Company of New York City, presenting its platen printing presses to letterpress and colour printers, embossers and box makers. The four pictures are close-up photographs of a platen press's mechanism, showing the gear wheel, cam levers, rollers and metal framework in detailed grey tones, useful to a designer wanting studies of industrial machinery.


































