Creator
Pierres, Philippe-Denis.
Title
Déscription d’une nouvelle presse d’imprimerie ….
Coverage
Paris
Publisher
Imprimé chez l’auteur, par sa nouvelle presse
Date
1786
Description
Philippe-Denis Pierres (1741–1808), printer to the French king, invented several printing presses. This one, in operation in Pierres’s Paris shop since 1784, utilized a cam instead of a screw to lower the platen against the type forme. This was just one of numerous late eighteenth-century attempts to improve the wooden hand press, experiments which culminated in Earl Stanhope’s development of the iron press in 1800.
Source
Purchased from the Harper Fund.