Book Trade/History Of Printing from Lippincott Books

Mainz: Verlag Hermann Schmidt, 1996. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 326 pp. With 129 color plates of certificates of Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark and Germany, many full page. With chronological index. Text English and German. Fine in Fine dust jacket. The dust jacket seems to be uncommon. Oversize book: overseas customers please request a… Read more about this item

New York: Readex Microprint, 1967. Compact Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Approximately ten volumes of the original edition are contained in each volume. Greatly reduced type, requires a magnifier to read. Volumes are in Very Good+ to Fine condition. Oversize books: please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a… Read more about this item

Weimar: Straubing & Müller. Hardcover. GVG. vi, 336 pp. With numerous bookseller advertisements on endpapers and throughout text. Bookseller entries are in the language of their country of origin. Organized in three parts: Part I: list of firms in alphabetical order; Part II: list of firms arranged geographically by country and then by… Read more about this item

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1987. Limited Numbered Edition . Hard Cover with Slipcase. Very Good. [xii], 218, [10] pp. Translated by Stephen Mitchell. One of 800 numbered copies on mould-made Magnani paper, set in Monotype Didot and printed at Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, Italy. Designed by Benjamin Shiff. Bound by Recalcati of Milan in… Read more about this item

Boston: George Coleman Company, 1923. Hardcover. Very Good. xv, 126 pp. Dark green cloth, titles gilt. 18 illustrations. Light wear to spine edges, glue residue on front board, otherwise clean & tight, many uncut pages.

Oxford: University Press of America, 1943. Paper Wrappers. Fair. Monograph. pp. 30-46. Reprinted from the transactions of The Bibliographical Society, The Library. Front cover detached, wear to edges. "We know of three early printed editions of the fourth book of St. Augustine's de Doctrina Christiana, to which the separate title de Arte… Read more about this item

New York: Garland Publishing, 1980. Hardcover. Fine. 640 pp. Brown cloth, spine title gilt. Facsimile of the original 1882 edition printed in London. 3 plates, numerous wood engravings. Published just before mechanical typesetting became feasible, Practical Printing contains a last summation of the art of hand composition, with unusually detailed instructions for such difficult… Read more about this item

New York: Garland Publishing, 1980. Hardcover. Fine. 325 pp. Brown cloth, title gilt on spine. Facsimile of the original 1856 edition printed by Henry Baird. With a new introduction by Sidney F. Hunter. 12 plates. Intended for book collectors and amateurs, as well as for the "practical workman," Nicholson's manual is… Read more about this item

New York: Garland Publishing, 1981. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 315 pp. Folio. Authorized facsimile of the original edition printed by Oxford at the Clarendon Press in 1967. Includes numerous illustrations within the text and 23 plates. With a new introduction by Nicolas Barker. John Fell established the French sixteenth-century and the… Read more about this item

New York: George Efron Publishing, 1956. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/GVG. Unpaginated. Given the subject, every page is profusely illustrated in black & white or halftone. Schorr's premise in writing the book was to show how "A special distinction and drama can be brought to any illustration, building , product, or whatnot, if the proper… Read more about this item