Typographia: A Brief Sketch of the Origin, Rise, and Practice of the Typographic Art: with Practical Directions for Conducting Every Department in an Office
by Adams, Thomas F
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Printed and published by the compiler, 1837 First edition of a classic American printer's manual, kept in print until 1864 and ultimately replaced as the standard manual by MacKellar's American Printer in 1866. Later cloth with gilt spine, new endpapers. . Octavo. With four plates, printed on a clay-finished paper, including three showing presses: the Ruthven, Philadelphia (Ramage) and Washington presses. Additional illustrations in text. Foxed throughout, as usual, bookplate of Jake Chernofsky (d. 2004), editor and publisher of the AB Bookman's Weekly. A very good copy. Though Adams borrowed heavily from Johnson and Hansard, there is new topical material in the press section, a polemic against stereotyping, and a scale of prices with tasks for typographical work.
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- Bookseller
- Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15955
- Title
- Typographia: A Brief Sketch of the Origin, Rise, and Practice of the Typographic Art: with Practical Directions for Conducting Every Department in an Office
- Author
- Adams, Thomas F
- Format/Binding
- Later cloth with gilt spine, new endpapers.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition of a classic American printer's manual, kept in pr
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed and published by the compiler,
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia:
- Date Published
- 1837
- Pages
- [2], 372, [8, index] pp.
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Los Angeles, California
About Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB
Our office is located in Los Angeles on West Third Street, between the Beverly Center and Farmer's Market. Though we gave up an open shop after more than thirty years, we welcome serious customers and dealers. We are normally open from 10 to 6 Monday through Saturday. Since some of our less expensive books are located in a temperature-controlled storage area offsite, you may want to call ahead of time to insure that the book you want to see will be available. We feature a stock strong in literature, history, Western philosophy, women's studies, education, history of science and fine printing and artists' books. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. We have books from the 15th to the 20th century in all prices ranges. We do appraisals for income tax and insurance purposes. We purchase individual books and libraries. Proprietor: Carol Sandberg
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- AB Bookman's Weekly
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- Spine
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- New
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...