Description:
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983. Edition limited to 325 copies (this, no. 130) printed and designed by David Holman at the Wind River Press; folio, pp. [iii]-xvi, [2], 67, [3]; title page printed in red and black; 18 photographic illustrations of the printers at work plus 8 tipped-in specimens; original 4-color linen cloth binding printed at the Janus Press, printed paper label on spine; slight wrinkle at the fore-edge of the upper cover, else fine. Among the presses represented are the Abattoir, Adagio, Arion, Bird & Bull, Cummington, Gehenna, Janus, Perishable, Press of the Night Owl, etc. Laid in is the elaborate 8-page prospectus for the work containing a frontispiece facsimile and one other facsimile in text; original brown printed wrappers, printed in blue and black; fine. Order form and envelope laid in.