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Francestown: Typographeum, 1997. Limited private press edition. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy. 8vo. Brown cloth with printed label on back-strip (spare label tipped in). 48 pp. 115 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket. Included here is an essay about what it may have been like to be a printer in the 15th Century. It describes how a printing shop was run and what problems had to be dealt with. Two more essays are about Nicolaus Jenson and Aldus Manutius, printers who worked at Venice during the same period. Then there is a chapter of autobiography, about the author's first years in Francestown. And finally there is a reminiscence of David Low, a bookseller and friend.
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Typographeum, Being Essays, Mainly Historical, on Printers and Printing, and Including a Remembrance of a Bookseller, Along With a Personal Narrative Tapa dura - 1997
de Risk, R. T
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- Título Typographeum, Being Essays, Mainly Historical, on Printers and Printing, and Including a Remembrance of a Bookseller, Along With a Personal Narrative
- Autor Risk, R. T
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición Limited private
- Editorial Typographeum, Francestown
- Fecha de publicación 1997
- ISBN 9780930126551
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Typographeum, Being Essays, Mainly Historical, on Printers and Printing, and Including a Remembrance of a Bookseller, Along With a Personal Narrative
de Risk, R. T
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- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Usado - Fine copy
- Edición
- Limited private press edition. First edition
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780930126551 / 0930126556
- Cantidad disponible
- 5
- Librería
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Francestown, New Hampshire, United States
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Typographeum, Being Essays, Mainly Historical, on Printers and Printing, and Including a Remembrance of A Bookseller, Along with a Personal Narrative
de Risk, R. T
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Usado - Fine copy
- Edición
- Limited private press edition. First edition
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780930126551 / 0930126556
- Cantidad disponible
- 2
- Librería
-
Francestown, New Hampshire, United States
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EUR 164.94EUR 5.66 enviando a USA
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Francestown: Typographeum, 1997. Limited private press edition. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy. 8vo. Bound by Francis Brown in quarter brown morocco with brown buckram sides. Marbled end-papers. T.e.g. One of 10 lettered copies hand-set and printed letterpress and signed by the author. Preserved in a slip-case. No dust-jacket as issued. Includes an essay about what it may have been like to be a printer in the 15th Century, and two more about important printers from that period: Nicolaus Jenson and Aldus Manutius. There is also a chapter of autobiography, about the author's first years in Francestown. Finally there is a reminiscence of a much loved bookseller, David Low.
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