[ Norwich Printers' Joint Industrial Council. ] Typed report of a talk given at Norwich Central Public Library, titled 'The Making of a Book'.

2pp., 4to. Carbon. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. Begins: 'The third of a series of lectures arranged by the Norwich Printers' Joint Industrial Council was held at the Norwich Central Public Library on March 19, when the City Librarian (Mr. Geo A. Stephen, the author of "Commercial Bookbinding" and other works) gave a lecture on "The Making of a Modern Book". The lecture was illustrated by about a hundred lantern slides and exhibits. [...] Mr. F.S. Deyns Page, the President of the Norwich and District Master Printers' Association, presided.' Topics include: Walter Crane; 'the interim report of the Library Association's Book Production Committee', and 'Messrs Thomas Nelson &Sons book factory at Edinburgh', with its 'machines - veritable automatons - and mechanical devices, some of which were specially designed and patented by Nelson's own engineers. [...] When all the machines were running the Minimum output was 2,000 books per hour, and nearly 200,000 books perweek [sic] were produced at the busiest times of the year.'