LOT #92549 |
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Lot of Four Books on Printing,... (Total: 4 Items)
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Description
Lot of Four Books on Printing,including, Isaiah Thomas. The History of Printing in America, with a Bibliography of Printers & an Account of Newspapers. Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society, 1970. Special edition limited to 1,950 copies, of which this is number 867; each copy of this edition has an original leaf from the first edition of Thomas' History of Printing in America (Worcester, 1810) bound in. Octavo. xxi, 650 pages. Edited by Marcus A. McCorson from the Second Edition. Portrait frontispiece. Index. Gilt-stamped blue cloth. Dark spots to spine. Front hinge starting, but binding solid. Very good in publisher's slipcase. [and:] Clifford K. Shipton. Isaiah Thomas, Printer, Patriot and Philanthropist. 1749-1831. Rochester: The Printing House of Leo Hart, 1948. First edition. Octavo. xii, 94 pages. Illustrated. Index. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Foxing to fore-edge. Fine in dust jacket with closed tear. [and:] John Clyde Oswald. Printing in the Americas. New York: The Gregg Publishing Company, [1937]. First edition. Octavo. xii, 564 pages, plus 41-page index. Illustrated. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Map endpapers. Front joint rubbed. Foxing to fore-edge. Very good in dust jacket. [and:] Joseph Moxon. Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing (1683-4). London: Oxford University Press, 1958. First edition. Octavo. lviii, 480 pages. Edited by Herbert Davis and Harry Carter. Illustrated. Two fold-out facsimiles. Index. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Publisher's red stain to top edge. Foxing to fore-edge. Very good in price-clipped jacket.
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2008 October Grand Format Rare Books Auction #684 (go to Auction Home page)
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October, 2008
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