Printing Old and New.
by Taylor, Garnett, Evans & Co.
Manchester [etc.]: Taylor, Garnett, Evans & Co., Guardian Printing Works, [ca. 1912]. First edition. Boards somewhat darkened, slightly soiled and rubbed; some light foxing and soiling; a good to very good copy. 8vo (9.75 x 6.5 inches), original decorated brown glazed parchment over beveled boards, 70 pages. Mounted plates included in the pagination. A lovely and elaborate promotional work and specimen for the industrial printing firm, views of the plant and equipment, examples of illustration techniques, decorative borders in use,... Read More
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Wheelbarrow. Articles and Discussions on the Labor Question.
by [Trumbull, Matthew Mark, "Wheelbarrow"].
Chicago Open Court Publishing 1894 First edition.. Slight scratch to the front board; coated endpapers a trifle spotted; a fine copy.. 8vo, original purple cloth, gilt lettering. Frontis portrait. With Trumbull's pseudonym "Wheelbarrow" at the head of the title. Arguments on questions of national economics from the man who had worked as a railroad laborer before becoming a lawyer and state legislator: "While aspiring to more intellectual and higher work, his sympathies with the laboring classes never waned."... Read More
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Letterproef Films en Rasters.
by [TYPE SPECIMENS]. Jos. Neve.
[Amsterdam]: ClichÈ- en Stereotypie-Inrichting Jos. Neve, [1946]. First edition.. Somewhat rubbed and soiled; in good to very good condition.. Oblong spiral-bound in pictorial card stock boards (6 x 9.75 inches), 87, [3] plus a mounted leaf and a laid-in circular. Illus. Met een gevoel van vreugde zenden wij U deze nieuwe letterproef toe." A relatively early specimen of types available from this Amsterdam phototype type supply shop, with period-appropriate workhorses like Nobel, Cooper, Futura, and Bodoni. Includes a... Read More
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A Set of Chants Adapted to the Hymns in the Morning and Evening Prayer, and to the Communion Service, of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
by [Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, compiler].
Boston: Printed by Thomas Badger, Jun., 1819. First edition. Free endpapers excised; rubbed, soiled, front joint cracking but holding; a good, sound copy only. 8vo (8.88 x 5.5 inches), early half calf, blue boards, 49, [1] pages. Primarily printed music. A work from early in the career of Wainwright (1792-1854), the eventual provisional Episcopal Bishop of New York (he was then at his first post at Christ Church in Hartford, shortly to be moved to New York) and a moderately... Read More
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Godfrey Weber's General Music Teacher: Adapted to Self-Instruction, both for Teachers and Learners; Embracing also an Extensive Dictionary of Musical Terms. Translated from the Third German Edition, with Notes and Additions, by James F. Warner.
by Weber, Godfrey [Gottfried] and James F. Warner.
Boston: J. H. Wilkins & R. B. Carter, 1842. A later printing of this first American translation of the Godfrey (the first appearing in 1841) and the expanded dictionary.. Cloth generally sunned; small chip to the spine, and a bit frayed at the head and foot; label somewhat rubbed; some occasional light foxing; a good copy.. Large 8vo (9.63 x 6 inches), original ribbed brown or perhaps purple cloth, printed paper label on spine, 135, [1]; xc pages.... Read More
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A Royal Slave. A Romantic Story Founded upon the Play of the Same Name.
by White, Grace Miller.
New York: J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 57 Rose Street, 1905. First edition. Wrappers spotted and soiled and lightly creased, with a small chip at the foot of the spine; cheap pulp paper browned, but supple; in good to very good condition. Original color pictorial wrappers (7 x 4.75 inches), 192 pages. Frontis, three plates. A pot-boiler set in Mexico with a mysterious orphan, an assortment of robbers and bandits, disguises worthy of a cut-rate Shakespearean comedy, a kindly friar, and a villain... Read More
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The Hot Springs Specialist . . . Giving, in Plain English, the Treatment and Prescription in Full, Used for Many Years by These Two Physicians and Surgeons: The Knowledge Gained by Experience in their Life-Time Study and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Diseases. Price $5.00.
by Whitworth, A[lbert] J[ames] and J[ohn] M. Byrd.
(Hot Springs, Ark.: A. J. Whitworth, M. D.; Press of S. C. Toof & Co., Memphis, 1913). First edition.. Some minor rubbing and wear; some light spotting; a very good copy.. 8vo, original black-stamped red cloth, 189 pages. Two inserted portraits. A collection of receipts for various maladies, including venereal complaints, compiled by two Hot Springs doctors. Whitworth is perhaps best remembered for his published fulminations against the osteopath bathrobe evil. Atwater 3773.1.
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