...across the field, I thought that I would share with you a passage that I just read in vol.1 of "Engineering Workshop Practice" published by Caxton in 1946/47. "The Publishers guarantee that the Binding, Printing, Paper, and Blocks for Illustrations used in this book are the products of British Workers". Now isn't that the most interesting thing that you have read on here all day? I thought not; anyway, cheers.
Book printing binding and publishing was big business in the UK until the 1980s, it is still a major industry but a lot of the work is sub contracted abroad now.