The History of Printing in America : with a Biography of Printers and an Account of Newspapers - Tapa dura

THE HISTORY OF PRINTING IN AMERICA; With a biography of printers & an account of newspapers

Second edn. 8vo, pp. xxi, 650. Index. Edited by Marcus A. McCorison. Signed by the editor on the colophon. Original leaf from the first edition (Worcester, 1810) tipped in. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt, in a box with facsimile of first edition title. Fine. Colophon reads: "Nineteen hundred and fifty copies of this book have been printed from type by The Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont. Roderick D. Stinehour designed the book, using Monotpe Bembo and Centaur types. The frontispiece portrait of Isaiah Thomas, a copperplate stipple engraved for the "Freemason's Magazine" of Novermber 1811 by W. R. Jones of Philadelphia, was pulled from the original plate ow in the American Antiquarian Society. The title page eagle was drawn specially for this book and is based on elements of two type ornaments from the Binny & Ronaldson type foundry in Philadelphia, whose types Thomas used in printing this work in 1810. An original leaf from that edition, printed by Thomas in Worcester, is included in this Imprint edition. The text paper is Imprint, made by Monadnock Paper Company. The book was bund by New Hampshire Bindery in Concord, New Hampshire. This is copy number 903 (Numbered and signed by McCorison.). Nº de ref. del artículo: 55093

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