Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by profession or discipline]
7. bookbinding tools
8. bookbinding presses

Anotations

Scope note:

Heavy vertical presses used for pressing newly bound books, pressure being applied by lowering a platen by means of a long central screw, today used primarily for hand-bound books. A larger version (nearly twice the size) was formerly used to squeeze the moisture out of large sheets of newly-made paper; today most paper is pressed with hydraulic presses.