Typographeum : being essays, mainly historical, on printers and printing : and including a remembrance of a bookseller, along with a personal narrative / by R.T. Risk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Risk, R. T., author, printer, binder.

Contributor:

Brown, Francis, binder.

Typographeum, publisher.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Low, David, 1903-1987.

Low, David.

Risk, R. T.

Letterpress printing--History.

Letterpress printing.

Fine books--New Hampshire--Francestown--Specimens.

Fine books.

New Hampshire--Francestown.

Genre:

History.

Specimens.

Memoirs.

Printers' devices (Printing).

Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding).

Rare books.

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Risk, R. T. (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

1 volume ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Francestown, N.H. : Typographeum, 1997.

Contents:

The fifteenth century printer

Nicolaus Jenson : master printer

Aldus Manutius : scholar and printer

Typographeum : a printer's tale

A good old firm

David Low, bookseller.

Notes:

Publisher from title page verso.

Printer's device on title page.

"One hundred and fifteen copies of this book were printed and bound by R.T. Risk at Francestown, New Hampshire, and completed in October 1997. An additional ten lettered copies, bound by Francis Brown at Dorchester, Dorset, were signed by the author. Deo gratias"--Colophon.

Includes chapter with information about New Zealand author Count Potocki of Montalk.

Binding: dark brown linen, cream label lettered in black mounted on spine.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

ISBN:

0930126556

9780930126551

OCLC:

46912633