Alexander A. Stewart

A. A. Stewart, whose full name was Alexander A. Stewart, was an American printing educator; public information about his birth and death dates and formal education is limited. He taught for many years at the printing school of the North End Union in Boston, instructing beginners and apprentices in the practical knowledge of typesetting, type, and composing-room equipment. For the education committee of the United Typothetae of America, he compiled several textbooks in the Apprentice series of the Typographic Technical Series, including Type, Typesetting, and Type Cases and Composing-room Furniture, and also edited a technical dictionary for printers. These works are notable for clear explanations of terms and concrete step-by-step descriptions, making mechanical features and operating procedures easy to understand; they became important introductory printing texts in the early twentieth-century English-speaking world and had a lasting influence on printing vocational education and apprentice training.