author

Robert F. Salade

b. 1880

A practical early-20th-century writer, he focused on the craft and business of paper-box making and related printing trades. His books are especially interesting for readers who enjoy clear, hands-on guides from the industrial age.

1 Audiobook

How Paper Boxes Are Made A practical and instructive book telling how the beginner may manufacture all kinds of paper boxes, with special chapters on the printing department for paper box plants, embossing, gold-leafing, label work, etc.

How Paper Boxes Are Made A practical and instructive book telling how the beginner may manufacture all kinds of paper boxes, with special chapters on the printing department for paper box plants, embossing, gold-leafing, label work, etc.

by Robert F. Salade

About the author

Born in 1880, Robert Francis Salade wrote practical books about printing, paper-box manufacturing, and closely related trades. Library records identify him as the author of works on cartons, engraving, electrotyping, stereotyping, and paper products, suggesting a career rooted in the everyday techniques of commercial printing and packaging.

His best-known title today is How Paper Boxes Are Made, issued in 1920, a detailed guide for beginners that explains how different kinds of paper boxes were manufactured and decorated. The book also points to his wider body of work, naming other titles such as Plate Printing and Die Stamping, How to Make Cutouts, and Newspaper Men of the Night.

Little biographical detail appears to be widely documented online beyond his birth year and his publishing record. What does come through clearly is his specialty: turning industrial know-how into straightforward instruction for readers learning a skilled trade.