Tales of the print shop - Allen, John Howard (New York Oswald Publishing Company, 1923)
The straight of things -- Launcelot and his two sons -- Some inside information -- Hubert Malnutritious Clingstone, Printer -- What's the use of dying -- How printer Jenkins solved the problem -- Platen & Junk, master typographers -- The psalm of a pair of pumps -- David Farrow goes a-trancing -- The ambitions of Jimmie Rew -- Old man Gorrs and the seventh heaven -- An ode to punctuation -- The manuscript of a mangled mat -- The tale of a tragic typo -- The reformation of Jupiter Watts -- Ad.-venturously speaking -- How printing came to lovely coffin -- A Broadway talk on make-up -- The isle o' woman -- Dobbs and I construct a Christmas card.
"Eighteen of these stories have appeared in five publications devoted to printing. Most of the stories have been signed `Jack Edwards'."
Keywords: Printing -- Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc