The Printed Book in America by Blumenthal, Joseph - 1977

Boston: David R Godine in Association with the Dartmouth College Library, 1977. HEAVY. 4to, 268 pp, 70 full-page illustrations, with 32 in colors. Prev owner's bookplate laid down on the front paste-down, partially obscured by the jacket flap. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. From the blurb, the author presents a 'narrative of how printing arrived, spread, and flourished in the American colonies -- of how it gradually attained, in its finest manifestations, the status of an art -- of how in the 20th century it had associated with it such talents as Updike, Rogers, Goudy, Dwiggins, Ruzicka, and the Grabhorns. Besides treating of the country's great typographers, there are discussed private and special presses which have carried forward traditions and enriched aesthetic achievements in American printing and bookmaking.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to.