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    A Few Suggestions to McGraw-Hill Authors: Details of manuscript preparation, typograpy, proof-reading and other matters in the production of manuscripts and books
    A Few Suggestions to McGraw-Hill Authors: Details of manuscript preparation, typograpy, proof-reading and other matters in the production of manuscripts and books
    A Few Suggestions to McGraw-Hill Authors: Details of manuscript preparation, typograpy, proof-reading and other matters in the production of manuscripts and books
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    A Few Suggestions to McGraw-Hill Authors: Details of manuscript preparation, typograpy, proof-reading and other matters in the production of manuscripts and books

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    DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Few Suggestions to McGraw-Hill Authors" (Details of manuscript preparation, typograpy, proof-reading and other matters in the production of manuscripts and books) by McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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    Release dateSep 4, 2022
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    A Few Suggestions to McGraw-Hill Authors: Details of manuscript preparation, typograpy, proof-reading and other matters in the production of manuscripts and books

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      A Few Suggestions to McGraw-Hill Authors - McGraw-Hill Publishing Company

      McGraw-Hill Publishing Company

      A Few Suggestions to McGraw-Hill Authors

      Details of manuscript preparation, typograpy, proof-reading and other matters in the production of manuscripts and books

      EAN 8596547217268

      DigiCat, 2022

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      Table of Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      A FEW SUGGESTIONS TO McGRAW-HILL AUTHORS

      I UNIFORMITY AND STANDARDS

      II PREPARING THE MANUSCRIPT

      III ILLUSTRATIONS

      IV MANUFACTURING THE BOOK

      V WHEN THE BOOK IS PUBLISHED

      INTRODUCTION

      Table of Contents

      The McGraw-Hill Book Company was formed on July 1, 1909, by a consolidation of the book departments of the McGraw Publishing Company and the Hill Publishing Company, then separate publishers of engineering journals and books. For over twenty years, prior to the formation of the McGraw-Hill Book Company, the several journals controlled by Mr. McGraw and Mr. Hill (now published by the McGraw-Hill Company, Inc., a separate organization) had been producing books in their special fields; but the publication of technical books had not been brought to the high standard of technical journals.

      From the beginning we adopted the slogan, Better Books in Text and Manufacture. It was evident to the men who had brought the leading technical journals of the country from comparative insignificance to positions of influence that there was need of a new technical literature—a literature for classroom and reference which should adequately supplement their periodicals.

      Our first efforts were largely in the field of engineering, but presently we set new goals for ourselves. By processes which seemed natural to us, we have extended our publishing not only into the fields of chemistry, physics, mathematics and English, with a view always of supplying better fundamental textbooks for students, but also into the fields of agriculture, business administration and economics. Similarly our range of publishing has broadened from the somewhat

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