American encyclopædia of printing / edited by J. Luther Ringwalt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ringwalt, J. Luther (John Luther), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Printing--Dictionaries.

Printing.

Medical Subjects:

Printing.

Genre:

Printed books -- United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 19th century -- Specimens.

lithographs.

chromolithographs.

line blocks.

dictionaries.

encyclopedias.

Lithographs.

Encyclopedias.

Dictionaries.

Chromolithographs.

Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)

Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding)

Bevelled edge boards (Binding)

Blocked bindings (Binding)

Gold blocked bindings (Binding)

Presentation inscriptions (Provenance) -- United States -- 19th century -- Specimens.

Physical Description:

xv, [2], 18-512 pages, 21 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, facsimiles ; 28 cm

Other Title:

American encyclopedia of printing

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Menamin & Ringwalt, 517 Minor Street. : J.B. Lippincott & Co., 715 Market St., 1871.

Notes:

Text printed in two columns.

Includes index.

Contemporary publishers' binding; rust/brown sand grain pictorial cloth; blocked in gold and blind; bevelled edge boards; brown surface coated endpapers.

Local Notes:

With green cloth binding with nine gold stamped portraits surrounding a larger portrait in oval frame with gold background in center depicting Benjamin Franklin on upper cover. Same image is blind stamped on lower cover. Gold stamped illustration on spine with title information presented on a ribbon. Greek key motif at head and foot of spine. Edges plain, brown endpapers.

Other Format:

Online version: Ringwalt, J. Luther (John Luther). American encyclopaedia of printing.

OCLC:

1182318