Single sheet, folded as one gathering, for "The Etching of Figures" by William Aspinwall Bradley. Designed and printed by Dard Hunter on laid paper made at his Marlborough-on-Hudson mill, 1915, with watermarks of his initials, DH inside a heart and CSE in a circle. Published by the Chicago Society of Etchers. This is the first signature of the book, including the title page, foreword (p. 2), and text pp. 7-8.
Samuel W. Lowe of Philadelphia invented the Lowe printing press, an unusual conical cylinder press patented in 1856. Like Adams's Cottage printing press, it did not include a frisket and included an automatic tympan. The rights for the press were sold in 1858 to Joseph Watson, who marketed both presses in Boston and Philadelphia.
The Lowe printing press does not appear to have been as heavily advertised as the Adams, although the company notes that we have sold many presses … to druggists … in this country and in other lands. Every boy and business man seems to be having one.
As for portability, the Lowe was more than a third lighter than the Adams, ranging from between 12 and 120 pounds as compared to Adams's press at between 100 and 400 pounds. The Lowe used a simpler frame and relatively thin castings.