A History of Printing. Catalogue of an exhibition...
by John Carter Brown Library, Brown University. / [Elliott, Danial]
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Brown University, Providence, R.I., Oct. 28, 1977. Soft Cover. Signed. [25] p. 28 cm. Typescript, stapled In the fifteenth century, the printed book as we know it came into being. This was made possible by the invention of the process of accurately casting movable types in quantity, of assembling them into pages, and of impressing them on sheets of paper on a press. ...This exhibition is designed to illustrate the history of the art ofprinting from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries by a selection of characteristic and significant examples. ...The books have been drawn entirely from the collection of the John Carter Brown Library. (Danial Elliott, Bibliographical Assistant). Stock# 40,897x. Vg/ photocopy. Bibliography, book arts.
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- A History of Printing. Catalogue of an exhibition...
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- John Carter Brown Library, Brown University. / [Elliott, Danial]
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- Soft Cover
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- Paperback
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- Brown University, Providence, R.I., Oct. 28, 1977
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- History of the Book
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