The History of Printing in America. With a Biography of Printers and an Account of Newspapers Tapa dura - 1970

The Imprint Society, Boston, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, hardcover. No dj, blue-grey cloth. Vg condition. Slipcased; slipcase soiled and soot-stained, still fully intact. Covers and contents clean, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 650 pp. This edition contains a page of Thomas' first edition (1810) of this title, bound in.

Barre, MA London: The Imprint Society, 1970. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. One of 1,950 copies. With an original leaf bound in at front from the first edition of Thomas's History of Printing in America (Worcester, 1810). Housed in a very good, labeled slipcase (some minor spotting to top and front panels). .

Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1970. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. F/N, used, hc, blue cloth with gilt text on spine, ix-xxi, 650 pages. Interior clean, no marks except editor's signature and limitation number on the limitation page at rear. No wear to exterior of book. Slight shelf wear to slipcase. A page from the original printing bound in. This copy is number 705 of 1950 copies printed..

Imprint Society, Barre, MA, 1970. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Collectible - Very Good/None as Issued. Book Signed by Editor. VG- HB with no slipcase. Limited Ed., #937 of 1,950. Signed letterhead card from McCorison presenting this copy with the note "Glad you like the book" pasted onto FEP. That plus nice selection of the leaf from the 1810 First Edition tipped in--the start of the history of Revolutionary-era publisher John Holt of the "Newyork Journal" (pp. 150-151)--makes this a desirable copy. However, it is marred by the fact the binding is broken (webbing visible, though still holding) at the half-title page. Size: Octavo (8vo; up to 9 3/4" / 20-25 cm tall). 650 pages. Item Type: Book. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800); United States; 1970s; Communications & Media. Signed by Editor. ISBN: 0876360096. ISBN/EAN: 9780876360095. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.… Leer más

Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1970. Stout octavo. xxi, 650 pp; index. Blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine in cream slipcase with paper label. Near Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy, slipcase VG+, top & bottom lightly soiled, else unmarked. #758 of 1950 copies signed by the editor, Marcus A. McCorison. Printed by the Stinehour Press.. Signed. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Barre: Imprint Society, 1970. Vintage Copy. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good+ in boards. Text is clean and unmarked. Included is an original leaf from the first edition, page 303/304, tipped in. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall.

Barre MA: Imprint Society, 1970. 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… Leer más