Shepard's Citations Commemorates their 50th Anniversary with a Book Illustrating their Editorial and In-House Book Production

In 1923, fifty years after the foundation of Shepard's citations, when all legal research had to be done from print, the company, then based in New York City, issued a commemorative volume for presentation to their clients that contained excellent photographs of their editorial and their in-house book production facilities. Because the series of illustrations in this work are among the best series of photographs of editing and book production undertaken by an American publisher in the 1920s, I have reproduced most them with this entry. Notably, decades after the introduction of Linotype, Shepard's used Linotype but also maintained an extensive hand-typesetting department.

The work was curiously titled:

A Record of Fifty Years of Specializing in a Field that is of First Importance to the Bench and Bar of the United States. An Insight into an Establishment that has Grown from Small Beginnings to the First Rank in the Law Publishing Field. Also, a Detailed Presentation of the  Scope and Uses of Citation Books, with Illustrative Examples of their Use, and an Analysis of their Relation to All Other Methods of Legal Research.