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The 500th anniversary of the invention of printing / Otto W. Fuhrmann.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 587
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fuhrmann, Otto W. (Otto Walter), author, printer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gutenberg, Johann, 1397?-1468.
- Gutenberg, Johann.
- Printing--History--Origin and antecedents.
- Printing.
- Printing--Origin and antecedents.
- Genre:
- History.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Electra.
- Archer (Paper).
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copies)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copies)
- Physical Description:
- 34, [1] pages : illustrations, color portrait, facsimiles (some color) ; 25 cm
- Manufacture:
- New Rochelle : Walpole Printing Office
- Other Title:
- Five hundreth anniversary of the invention of printing
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Philip C. Duschnes, 1937.
- Notes:
- "Six hundred copies of this book set in Electra type have been printed on Archer paper. Text composition and presswork by the Walpole Printing Office. Display and illustrative material designed and printed by Otto W. Fuhrmann."--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- OCLC:
- 1346110
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