[All published.]
first edition
1965 · Philadelphia
by ECKMAN, JAMES, Dr. & Alexander S. Lawson
Philadelphia: North American Publishing Co, 1965. First edition of each volume, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 209, [1]; [8], 257, [1]; illustrated throughout, both fine in original red and green cloth respectively, without dust-jackets, as issued. Bookplates of Jacob Chernofsky. Volume I reprints the best of Eckman's periodical contributions, on America's Composing Machines: Their Inventors and Promoters; Some Famous Printing Presses and How They Developed; Noted Printing Personalities and the Parts They Played; and, Glimpses of Printing History. Lawson gives a year's worth of famous days in the history of printing. (Inventory #: 31754)