Buy this book on-line South Street Seaport Museum : A Visit to the Printer; Containing a description of The Printer from The Book of Trades, New York; Clark, Austin & Smith, ca. 1852"Bowne & Co., New York, 1986
Limited Edition, one of 250 copies. Original publisher's beige paper wrappers with string binding. Blue illustration printed on front cover. 5 3/4" x 6 1/4." Unpaginated, sixteen pages, complete. Small illustrations printed in black and blue ink, complete. Pages and covers are virtually pristine and intact. Binding is tight. A Fine copy. A beautiful booklet published by printers Bowne & Company, a modern recreation of a printing shop from the latter half of the nineteenth century in New York. The introduction gives some background on Bowne & Co. and describes the remainder of the book as being a facsimile reprint from The Book of Trades, a nineteenth-century book that illustrates the tools and methods of nineteenth-century printing. Back colophon: "This edition of 250 copies was designed, handset, and printed by Barbara Henry & Lissa Dodington in Compressed Roman No. 3 and Columbia Roman and Italic, with card Mercantile titling at Bowne & Co., Stationers, South Street Seaport Museum.". Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Fine. Binding: Soft cover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of South Street Seaport Museum : A Visit to the Printer; Containing a description of The Printer from The Book of Trades, New York; Clark, Austin & Smith, ca. 1852". Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including first editions, out-of-print books, livres anciens, livres rares and incunabula. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |