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Benjamin Franklin : the printer at work / by Lawrence C. Wroth ; complete with reproductions of Franklin's own typographic genius.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 598
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970, author.
- Series:
- Printing week library of Benjamin Franklin keepsakes ; 21st.
- Printing week library of Benjamin Franklin keepsakes ; 21st
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Franklin, Benjamin.
- Printers--United States--Biography.
- Printers.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Mohawk Artemis (Paper).
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 78 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Manufacture:
- New York : Eilert Printing Company
- Place of Publication:
- New York : [publisher not identified], 1974 (1981 printing)
- Notes:
- "Privately printed."
- "Maxwell J. Baumwell, designer, John DePol ... wood engravings M.J. Baumwell, Typography Inc., typesetting, Eilert Printing Company, Inc., printer, Sendor Bindery, Inc., bookbinding. Paper for cover and text is Mohawk Artemis."--Page 77.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- OCLC:
- 32018612
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