The First Detailed Printer's Manual, Joseph Moxon's "Mechanick Exercises" (1683)

Here is a link to a facsimile edition of Moxon's important treatise on printing. It appeared about 250 years after Gutenberg's experiments in Mainz, but the technologies involved in printing had changed in only minor ways in the intervening years. Another hundred years would pass before the Industrial Revolution brought with it a dizzying array of new technologies. On the right is Moxon's dedication to Christopher Wren.     
Moxon's Mechanick Exercises