first edition Hard Cover
1967 2018-01-04
by Silver, Rollo G.
Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia / The University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1967 2018-01-04. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. Boards very slightly bowed. 1967 Hard Cover. xii, 189 pp. Tall 8vo. Includes 24 plates. A forty-year history of printing in the United States, with sections on apprentices, journeymen, and masters, printing offices, the practice of printing, relationships between printers and authors, expansion of the press, typography, and illustration. Appendix detailing number of copies in editions of various notable works, and index follow text. (Inventory #: 2161229)