Historic Printing Types; A Lecture Read Before The Grolier Club Of New-York, January 25, 1885, With Additions And New Illustrations
by De Vinne, Theodore Low
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Orig. gilt lettered cloth backed boards. Teg. Very good
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About This Item
New York: Grolier Club, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gilt lettered cloth backed boards. Teg. Very good. 110 pages. 26 x 21 cm. Limited edition, one of 200 on Holland Paper and two copies on vellum. Elegantly printed, wide text margins with 24 text illustrations. Bright, clean text, laid-in Grolier Club card announcing "An Exhibition Of Books And Miniatures From Persia And The Levant, December 8, 1917, to January 13, 1918. Also laid-in pamphlet, "History of the Book," by Margaret N. Hincks, with illustrations by W.A. Dwiggins in the original envelope.
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- Bookseller
- Royoung bookseller, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21197
- Title
- Historic Printing Types; A Lecture Read Before The Grolier Club Of New-York, January 25, 1885, With Additions And New Illustrations
- Author
- De Vinne, Theodore Low
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Orig. gilt lettered cloth backed boards. Teg. Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Grolier Club
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1886
- Keywords
- Private Press
- Bookseller catalogs
- Printing; Books-on-Books; Design;
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