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Ayars, Contributions to the Art of Music in America by the Music Industries of Boston (1937) — the Squier, Farley, Rettberg, Rockwell and Elias Howe matter, 1937
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1established an up-to-date music printing and binding establishment. When Mr. Worley died in 1920, Wm. T. Small, who had been with The B. F. Wood Music Company, took over the Worley interests and has been carrying them on ever since at the present address of [address hidden], Roxbury, Massachusetts.
3This concern has a small engraving and a complete bookbinding department.
5The John Worley Company uses all methods of music printing, principally lithographic, also photo-lithographic (from zinc), and some typographic or from the electrotype plates. It was one of the first concerns in the country to use photo-lithography in the printing of music, and executes, at the present time, a considerable amount of work by this process. It also photographs and prints from manuscript and reproduces books of every kind, and makes titles by every process in one or more colors.
7The company prints all forms of vocal and instrumental music, mostly for Boston publishers, but also has customers throughout the country and even in Hawaii and Australia. Many of the standard editions are printed by the Worley Company, notably the works of the Ditson catalog, The B. F. Wood Music Co., E. C. Schirmer Music Co., C. C. Birchard & Co., Arthur P. Schmidt Co., and Walter Jacobs, Inc.
9STANHOPE PRESS (F. H. GILSON COMPANY)
11This company was established in 1878 by F. H. Gilson and is now carried on by his son, A. P. Gilson. It is one of the oldest of the six to eight concerns in the United States using the typographic method. This firm was located first at [address hidden] By 1890 it was at [address hidden] and in 1900 at [address hidden] It now shares the White-Smith Music Publishing Company building at [address hidden]
13This firm specializes in music book printing and has printed for publishers located all over the United States.
15It has made improvements in the designs of various music type characters, such as the bars on eighth note stems, for a better balanced and more harmonious page. Any regular foundry type faces desired are used for the words.
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