A. A. (Alexander A.) Stewart

A. A. Stewart, usually listed as Alexander A. Stewart, wrote practical books about printing at the end of the 19th and start of the 20th century. Records for The Printer's Art show it was published in 1892, and library listings also connect him with later instructional works such as Compositors' Tools and Materials (1918).

Project Gutenberg credits him with books including Typesetting, Type: A Primer of Information About the Mechanical Features of Printing Types, and Type Cases and Composing-room Furniture. Taken together, those titles suggest a writer focused less on literary fame and more on explaining the everyday tools, methods, and materials of the printing trade.

Little biographical detail was easy to confirm from the sources available here, but his surviving books remain useful as a window into the working world of hand composition and print-shop practice.