Excerpts from the book "TRAMP PRINTERS"
by John Howells and Marion Dearman
(a few copies now available, )

(Discovery Press,  Copyright 1996, 2003, all rights reserved)

 
• Another book on Tramp Printers!
  
  
• New: Biography of a Tramp Printer: Bill Taylor

 

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Table of Contents
 
• Introduction: A race of men that don't fit in…

 
• Some early printing offices

 
• The story of traveling printers

 
• Tramp Printers through History

 
• Biography of a Tramp Printer: Bill Taylor

 
• The invention of hot metal printing

 
• From manuscript to metal type

 
• Printers social, guild, and union organizations

 
• A Second Revolution: the Linotype

 
• Beyond the Linotype, into a changed world

 
• Touring Printers and Tramp Printers

 
• King of the Tramps

 
• The substitute system and how it aided tramp printers

 
• Slipboards  in the 1890s and in the 1960's

 
• Evolution of the Slipboard

 
• Traveling cards and itchy feet

 
• John Henry Curtin, a gentleman tramp printer

 
• Memories of “Journeymen” Printers

 
• Printer's Saloons

 
• The boxcar typographer

 
• Lydia Avery

 
• From a Tramp Printer’s Wife

 
• Mark Twain and the Country weekly

 
• Premature Demise of the Tramp Printer

 
• The Missouri River Pirates

 
• The duke who came to dinner

 
• and a Battered Suitcase in Hand

 
• Saratoga Printing Museum

 
• Linotype & Linotipisti (from Italy)

a very interesting web site from Italy

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about the authors

Pages by John Howells and Marion Dearman, authors of "Tramp Printers"
Copyright and all rights reserved.

ex-tramp printers encouraged to send e-mail to:
johnhowells40@gmail.com