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The Colophon: New Series; A Quarterly for Bookmen. Volume II. Number 3. Summer 1937

Pynson Printers, Incorporated, New York, 1937

Limited edition. Original publisher's beige cloth binding with red lettering and illustration of a quill on the front cover. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2." Pages 317-479, complete. Plates and illustrations in black and white and color, complete. Pages 463-479 feature "Advertising Announcements; The Crow's Nest & Notes About Contributors." Blank order form and envelope pre-addressed to The Colophon, Ltd. laid in. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. One faint, minuscule spot on front cover. A Fine copy. Text printed in the front: "Established in 1929. Vol. II, Number Three of the New Series, Copyright 1937, Pynson Printers, Issued in July." Text printed in the back: "Completed in July MCM XXX VII." The Colophon was a limited edition quarterly periodical that was published from 1929 to 1950. The periodical was established by Elmer Adler (1884-1962), the founder of Pynson Printers in New York City. Each quarterly contains a collection of "signatures" written and printed by different printers or printing presses. Most of these "signatures" are articles, but a few take the form of artwork and other non-written works. The articles cover a diverse range of topics but all relate in some way to printing, publishing, art, and literature. The Colophon was especially unique in featuring a variety of paper, typography, and printing styles due to the different contributors. The boards were produced by Pynson Printers. Beginning in 1935, The Colophon: New Series included fewer graphics and no longer used the contributors' paper, typography, or printing styles. The following are the articles and features in this issue: "First Blood" by MacKinlay Kantor, "Suggestions for Dating and Identification by Heraldry and Armor" by Edouard Sandoz, "Miss Bacon Advances Learning" by Leroy Elwood Kimball, "Victorian Bookmarkers" by Paul McPharlin, "Notes on a Wordsworth Collection" by George F. Whicher, "Wolfe's Copy of Gray's Elegy" by Edwin Wolfe II, "Experientia Docet" by Carolyn Wells, "Photographs" [photographs of book collectors' personal libraries], "Footnotes to a Publisher's Life" by B. W. Huebsch, "The Young Artilleryman" by Thomas M. Spaulding, "Pennsylvania German Bookplates" by Henry S. Borneman, "Plagiarism and Thomas Hardy" by Carl J. Weber, "Notes and Queries" by Randolph G. Adams, "The Crow's Nest" by Frederick B. Adams, Jr., and "Portrait of the Artist: Wood Engraving" by Edwin Earle.. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover

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