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George Cowie

G. Cowie

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8 featured booksG. Cowie

Bookseller, printer and publisher; successor to Vernor, Hood & Sharpe (q.v.), also of 31 Poultry; Publisher of satirical weekly "Asmodeus, or The Devil in London". - Per the British Museum (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG193706) He was active in the book trade from about 1801 to 1860, and is usually credited with the authorship of "Cowie's Bookbinder's Manual" and "Cowie's Printer's Pocket-book & Manual".

OL4475646A

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    George Cowie

  • Personal name

    G. Cowie

  • Source identifier

    OL4475646A

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  • Cowie's bookbinder's manual

    Representative edition published 1852

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  • Cowie's Printer's pocket-book and manual containing the compositor's and pressman's scale of prices, agreed upon in 1810 and modified in 1816 ; the newsmen's scale ... ; all the schemes of impositions ... ; the Hebrew, Greek and Saxon alphabets ... ; To which is added a table for giving out paper, and an useful abstract of the various acts of Parliament connected with the trade ; Also a list of master printers

    Representative edition published 1830

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  • Cowie's Bookbinder's Manual : Containing a Full Description of Leather and Vellum Binding, Directions for Gilding of Paper and Book-Edges, and Numerous Valuable Recipes for Sprinkling, Colouring, & Marbling

    Representative edition published 2018

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  • Cowi e's printers' pocket book and manual

    Representative edition published 1850

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  • Cowie's job master printers' price book

    Representative edition published 1840

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  • Cowie's printer's pocket-book and manual

    Representative edition published 1839

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  • Cowie's Printer's pocket-book and manual, containing the compositors' and pressmen's scale of prices, agreed upon in 1810 and modified in 1816 ; the newsmen's scale, numerous valuable tables ; all the schemes of impositions from folio to hundred and twenty-eights inclusive ; the Hebrew, Greek, and Saxon alphabets ; with plans of the respective cases ; an explanation of mathematical, algebraical, physical, and astronomical signs

    Representative edition published 1835

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  • The bookbinder's manual

    Representative edition published 1829

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