Zur Feier des einhundertjährigen Bestandes der KK Hof-und Staatsdruckerei

K.K. Staatsdruckerei

Zur Feier des einhundertjährigen Bestandes der KK Hof-und Staatsdruckerei

Vienna

1904

In 1904, on its hundredth anniversary, the Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office in Vienna printed this elegant Vienna Secession–style commemorative book, describing its mechanized printing operation. The pages were printed on handmade paper with a carpet-like watermark covering most of the pages, viewable if the pages are held up to the light. The thin tissue guards protecting some illustrations have a similarly subtle printed pattern. The text, and an inserted list of employees who had worked at the printing office over the century, was typeset by hand without any paragraph indentation.