Bibliotheca Typographica, In usum eorum qui Libros amant: A List of Books About Books [Signed By the Author]
by Hart, Horace
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Rochester, NY: The Printing House of Leo Hart, 1933 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited First Edition. 8vo. xi, 142 pp, preface, introduction, I. The Letters of the Alphabet: Writting and Type; II. Paper and Papermaking; III. Manuscripts and Illumination; IV. Printing and Printers: 1. Bibliographies; 2. General Works; 3. Discovery; 4. Early Printers; 5. Modern Printers; 6. Essays; V. Bookbinding; VI. Publishing and Bookselling; VII. Bibliography; VIII. Book Collecting: Periodicals; index. Limited First Edition. Signed and Numbered: 164/250. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Tan cloth with quarter-leather backstrip, gilt lettering to spine, and gilt top text block edge...
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- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000703
- Title
- Bibliotheca Typographica, In usum eorum qui Libros amant: A List of Books About Books [Signed By the Author]
- Author
- Hart, Horace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Limited First Edition
- Publisher
- The Printing House of Leo Hart
- Place of Publication
- Rochester, NY
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- BOOKS & PUBLISHING TYPOGRAPHIC BIBLIOGRAPHY BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS
- Bookseller catalogs
- BOOKS & PUBLISHING;
- Size
- 8vo
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West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Gilt
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- Text Block
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- First Edition
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- Tight
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- Marginalia
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