"An Encyclopedia of the Book" Geoffrey Ashall Glaister, 1960 (1st Edition)
In the fifteenth century, wehn the bookcrafts as now paractised may be said to have begun, the printer often combined the roles of typefounder, editor, printer, binder, publisher and seller of his production; a time consuming but surely very satisfying occupation. As the years passed, however and the process of making books grew into separate trades, each with its own master craftsmen, special terms were evolved to describe the technicalities particular to every stage of creating a book."