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An octave was a paper folded three times. A pamphlet was usually 1-12 sheets of paper folded in quarto, or 8-96 pages. It was sold for one or two pennies apiece. [2] The printing of a pamphlet involved many people: the author, the printer, suppliers, print-makers, compositor, correctors, pressmen, binders, and distributors.
For several centuries after the printing press became common, people would print their own ideas in small pamphlets somewhat akin to modern blogs. [1] While these could not be widely available via the internet they could "go viral", [2] because others were free to reprint pamphlets they liked, and therefore ideas were widely spread. [3]
Signal Corps Training Pamphlet no.1, Elementary Electricity: 1918 and later: 23: Handbook/Signal Corps 1069: Radio Communication Pamphlet no.40, The Principles Underlying Radio Communication: 1921/1922-FM/Radio 1076: Service handbook of the coincidence trainer types A and B for range finding operators: 1921: 15: technical manual 1090
Religious enthusiasm and the great demand for bibles and other religious works is largely what promoted the first printing efforts in the American colonies. Before and during the American Revolution colonial printers were also actively publishing newspapers and pamphlets expressing the strong sentiment against British colonial policy and taxation.
Drapier's Letters is the collective name for a series of seven pamphlets written between 1724 and 1725 by the Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, Jonathan Swift, to arouse public opinion in Ireland against the imposition of a privately minted copper coinage that Swift believed to be of inferior quality.
Carlyle was deeply impacted by the Revolutions of 1848 and his journeys to Ireland in 1846 and 1849 during the Great Famine.After struggling to formulate his response to these events, he wrote to his sister in January 1850 that he had "decided at last to give vent to myself in a Series of Pamphlets; 'Latter-Day Pamphlets' is the name I have given them, as significant of the ruinous overwhelmed ...
The pamphlet was created for circulation to the British and Indian delegates to the Third Round Table Conference in London in 1933. [10] It was addressed with a covering letter dated 28 January 1933 signed by Ali alone and addressed from 3 Humberstone Road. It states: [9]
A pamphlet is an unbound book (that is, without a hard cover or binding). Pamphlets may consist of a single sheet of paper that is printed on both sides and folded in half, in thirds, or in fourths, called a leaflet or it may consist of a few pages that are folded in half and saddle stapled at the crease to make a simple book.