The Story Of A Motto And A Mark. Being a brief sketch of a few printers' marks and containing the facts concerning the mark of the Gilliss Press. One of 200.
by Gilliss, Walter
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
NY, NY: Gilliss Press, 1902.. 12mo. 42 pp. plus the colophon. Original vellum-like parchment paper boards titled and ruled in gold. Frontispiece and nine full-page plates. Good with tear at tail of spine, some pages well-worn to gutter.
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- Bookseller
- Alan Wofsy Fine Arts (US)
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- Title
- The Story Of A Motto And A Mark. Being a brief sketch of a few printers' marks and containing the facts concerning the mark of the Gilliss Press. One of 200.
- Author
- Gilliss, Walter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- NY, NY: Gilliss Press, 1902.
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- printing;
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Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Parchment
- Pages or book covering made from a prepared animal skin. Parchment describes any animal skin used for books, while vellum is a...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.