THE HISTORY OF PRINTING IN AMERICA; With a biography of printers & an account of newspapers
by THOMAS, Isaiah
- Used
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0876360096
- ISBN 13
- 9780876360095
- Seller
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Lanesborough, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Barre MA: Imprint Society, 1970. Second edn. 8vo, pp. xxi, 650. Index. Edited by Marcus A. McCorison. Signed by the editor on the colophon. Original leaf from the first edition (Worcester, 1810) tipped in. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt, in a box with facsimile of first edition title. Fine. Colophon reads: "Nineteen hundred and fifty copies of this book have been printed from type by The Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont. Roderick D. Stinehour designed the book, using Monotpe Bembo and Centaur types. The frontispiece portrait of Isaiah Thomas, a copperplate stipple engraved for the "Freemason's Magazine" of Novermber 1811 by W. R. Jones of Philadelphia, was pulled from the original plate ow in the American Antiquarian Society. The title page eagle was drawn specially for this book and is based on elements of two type ornaments from the Binny & Ronaldson type foundry in Philadelphia, whose types Thomas used in printing this work in 1810. An original leaf from that edition, printed by Thomas in Worcester, is included in this Imprint edition. The text paper is Imprint, made by Monadnock Paper Company. The book was bund by New Hampshire Bindery in Concord, New Hampshire. This is copy number 903 (Numbered and signed by McCorison.).
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- Bookseller
- Second Life Books Inc
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55093
- Title
- THE HISTORY OF PRINTING IN AMERICA; With a biography of printers & an account of newspapers
- Author
- THOMAS, Isaiah
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second edn
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0876360096
- ISBN 13
- 9780876360095
- Publisher
- Imprint Society
- Place of Publication
- Barre MA
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- printing; press; signed; americana
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About Second Life Books Inc
Established on 1972, we sell used and rare books. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Assoc. of America, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers and the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Booksellers .
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