The Colonial Printer
by Wroth, Lawrence C
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- x
- Seller
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
NY: The Grolier Club 1931. 10" x 6.75". xviii, 271, [3] pp. Title page in black and red. 15 black-and-white plates. Marbled and blue-green cloth over boards, spine titles and decoration stamped in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed, green endpapers. Light rubbing and edgewear to boards, minor sunning and pulling to spine. Very Good. A foundational study of Colonial American printing, one of 300 copies printed for the Grolier Club by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. [Smith 729] . x . x .
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- Bookseller
- Brattle Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37898
- Title
- The Colonial Printer
- Author
- Wroth, Lawrence C
- Book Condition
- Used - x
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Grolier Club 1931
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Keywords
- x
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