The Mainz diary, 1437-1440 : in which new light is shed upon the cradle days of the art and mystery of printing / translated from the German by Albert Bachaus ; edited and with a note by Arthur W. Rushmore ; with a critical foreword by Hermann Püterschein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rushmore, Arthur W., 1883-1955.

Dwiggins, W. A. (William Addison), 1880-1956, author of foreward.

Contributor:

Bachaus, Albert, translator.

Rushmore, Arthur W., 1883-1955, editor.

Golden Hind Press (Madison, N.J.), publisher.

Haddon Craftsmen, Inc., printer.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gutenberg, Johann, 1397?-1468--Fiction.

Gutenberg, Johann.

Printing--Origin and antecedents--Fiction.

Printing.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Weiss Antiqua.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Original Oldstyle Italic.

Arak Ash (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

Traister, Daniel (donor) (RBC copy)

Clauss, Eugene A., 1870- (bookplate) (inscription) (Kislak copy)

Rushmore, Arthur W., 1883-1955 (autograph) (Kislak copy)

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Lerner, Abe (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Rushmore, Edna (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Rushmore, Arthur (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Gutenberg Research Center (stamp) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, [4], 11, [3] pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimiles ; 26 cm

Manufacture:

Camden, N.J. : Haddon Craftsmen

Place of Publication:

Madison, N.J. : Golden Hind Press, M cm xl [1940].

Contents:

Chapter one tells how we happened to be in Wiesbaden in '31 and the way the diary came into our possession

Chapter two deals with the diaries and casts a new and surprising light on the birth of a great invention.

Notes:

"Issued on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the invention of printing from moveable type."

"Of the first edition ... 250 copies have been bound in boards for the friends of the editor, and the balance of the sheets bound in with the text of the Christmas issue of Print"--Page [iii].

Set in Weiss Antiqua and Original Oldstyle Italic. Printed on Arak Ash paper by the Haddon Craftsman.--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Kislak copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Daniel Traister.

Kislak copy has illustrated bookplate of Eugene A. Clauss (1870-1949) on front pastedown; folded ms. letter (1 sheet ([2] p.) dated 26 December 1940 on letterhead of The Golden Hind Press from Arthur W. Rushmore to Eugene A. Clauss regarding the gift of this volume affixed to front free endpaper.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has photocopy of letter in the Kislak copy laid in.

OCLC:

4720250