A Publishing History of a Prohibited Best Seller: The Abbe de Vertot and his Historie de Malte by Thake, Robert

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. 195pp. Quarto [27 cm] Orange cloth over boards. From the Publisher- "In the Service of Scholarship is a history of one of the leading printing firms of the twentieth century. It is also a character study and biography of Harold Hugo (1910-1985), whose career at Meriden Gravure began at the age of fourteen and continued until his retirement as president in 1975. During his tenure, Hugo brought the company to standards of excellence that earned worldwide recognition for art reproduction of the highest quality. "The distinguished graphic designer and educator Alvin Eisenmann said of Harold in 1978, 'there has never been anyone who held the position that Harold does in American scholarly printing.' This book records the practices that were employed to advance illustration printing during the era of film-based printing technology, from collotype and letterpress to offset lithography. Many of the groundbreaking procedures that Hugo… Read More

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