Dard Hunter on Papyrus: Excerpted from The Story of Early Printing
by Hunter, Dard
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About This Item
(New Britain, CT: Art Press, 1971. Massmann, Robert. (16)pp., frenchfold. One of 50 copies. The Foreword by Massmann is signed by him. Hunter's account of the post-Civil War reuse of Egyptian mummies' wrappings by a Maine paper merchant is bound in stiff wrappers in the shape of a sarcophagus with the profile of a mummy at the top. The cover wrapper is made from the last lot of paper made by Dard Hunter at Lime Rock mill. This is a fine copy of one of Massmann's scarcest titles. (Bradbury, p. 240). (1 5/8 by 2 1/16; 41x52mm).
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- Bromer Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33335
- Title
- Dard Hunter on Papyrus: Excerpted from The Story of Early Printing
- Author
- Hunter, Dard
- Illustrator
- Massmann, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Art Press
- Place of Publication
- (New Britain, CT
- Date Published
- 1971
- Bookseller catalogs
- Miniature Books; Book Arts;
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