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The history of type & printing in easy lessons : embellished with effigies of some of the practitioners in this ancient art.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Grabhorn Press 72
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mackenzie & Harris, issuing body, publisher.
- Garthwaite, Jimmy, 1895- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Type and type-founding--History.
- Type and type-founding.
- Printing--History.
- Printing.
- Genre:
- History.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Sheets (Paper).
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Centaur.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Arrighi.
- Illustrated works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 1 portfolio ([6] sheets) : 6 illustrations ; 34 cm
- Manufacture:
- [San Francisco] : Imprinted at the Grabhorn Press
- Other Title:
- At head of each sheet: From Gutenberg to Grabhorn
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, California : Imprinted for Mackenzie & Harris, Inc., typographers and type founders since 1915 at 659 Folsom Street, [1948]
- Contents:
- Gutenberg
- Schoeffer
- Jenson
- Bill Caxton
- Aldus
- Estienne.
- Notes:
- Title from cover of portfolio.
- "Enclosed within this portfolio are reprints of the first six of a series of advertisements that we [Mackenzie & Harris, typographers] are currently running in Western advertising ... The illustrations were cut for us in linoleum by Mallette Dean. The entire series is being set in Centaur type, that great classical roman designed by Bruce Rogers. The italic is Arrighi draw by the late Frederic Warde ..."--Page [3] of portfolio.
- "Imprinted at the Grabhorn Press"--Page [4] of portfolio.
- Texts are by W.B. Garthwaite. 3000 copies printed in 1948. See Heller.
- Title and printer statement in red; text (page [3] of portfolio) in black. Text of sheets in red and black.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Cited in:
- Heller, E.R. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 463
- OCLC:
- 13456234
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