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1.
The Book in America: A History of the Making and Selling of Books in the United States
Contributors:
Publisher:
R.R. Bowker 1951 (2nd edition)
Subjects:
Publishers And Publishing--United States
Printing--History--United States
Booksellers And Bookselling--United States
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...considerablevolume of book printing, including such...with the ordinary book types of the day...works on American history and some works on the history of thegraphic arts, which he printed in his own shop...interest.Munsell's books about printing are interesting...edition ofThomas' History of Printing in...
2.
Master Makers of the Book: Being a Consecutive Story of the Book from a Century before the Invention of Printing through the Era of the Doves Press
Contributors:
Publisher:
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. 1928
Subjects:
Printers
Printing--History
Books
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...thecurious phases in the history of the Book. A volumecalled Entretiens...thepoets whom the Elzevirs printed. I have ten ex­amples...of the best-printed books of each period.Unscrupulous rare-book dealers have made manyan...Thebest dates are those books which were issued from
3.
The Cambridge Press, 1638-1692: A Reexamination of the Evidence concerning the Bay Psalm Book and the Eliot Indian Bible as Well as Other Contemporary Books and People
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of Pennsylvania Press 1945
Subjects:
Bay Psalm Book
Bible. O.T. Psalms--Paraphrases, English
Printing--Massachusetts--Cambridge--History
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...General Court since the Book of Lawswere in printing or printed, should be forthwith...to in the end of the printed laws, with a suitable table, to be printed.A year later, on...committeeto take order for the printing the laws agreed upon...
4.
The Printed Book
Publisher:
Unknown 1941 (2nd edition)
Subjects:
Printing--History
Books
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...used for the illustration of books asearly as the fifteenth century...by thefact that it could be printed with the text. But copperU...loss ofhomogeneity in the printed book. Metal engravingsbelong...require a differentkind of printing machine, cannot be printed at the sametime as the letterpress...
5.
Seventy Books about Bookmaking: A Guide to the Study and Appreciation of Printing
Contributors:
Publisher:
Columbia University Press 1941
Subjects:
Book Industries And Trade--Bibliography
Printing--Bibliography
Bibliography--Bibliography
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...CHECKLISTThe study of the history and the art of printing and the pursuitof bibliographical...whyand when what was printed where and by whom. The studentof printing is concerned mainly with how it was printed. It isprimarily for...that this list of books about bookmaking was...what form thelittle book was first brought out...
6.
The First Printers and Their Books: A Catalogue of an Exhibition Commemorating the Five Hundredth Anniversary of the Invention of Printing
Contributors:
Publisher:
The Free Library of Philadelphia 1940
Subjects:
Printing--History--Celebrations Of Invention
Incunabula
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...edition ofthe greatest book in the world, the very...annals of printing.The printed page of the Gutenberg...The first state of the printed page contained forty...oftechnical difficulties the printing of chapter headings...very few copies have printed heads; this copy is...most valuable printed books in the world.There...United States. The history of this copy goes back...
7.
Early American Books & Printing
Contributors:
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Company 1935
Subjects:
Printing--History--United States
American Literature--Colonial Period--Bibliography
American Literature--Early 19th Cent--Bibliography
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...00ADscribest, and that quickly, for my book of books. But, ifthou do it not, then will thy...oldjunk dealer, who doesn't know a book from a brick; yet,who is wiser than...favored hand stroking thesides of my book of books, and fondly calling it the OldBookseller...
8.
Printing in London, from 1476 to Modern Times: Competitive Practice and Technical Invention in the Trade of Book and Bible Printing, Periodical Production, Jobbing &C
Contributors:
Publisher:
Allen & Unwin 1960
Subjects:
Printing--England--London--History
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...spasmodic sort of thing being printed by Thomas Marsh andothers. There was, however, a demand for printed news develop­ing among...publication was far fromregular. The books were wholly dependent on events...event, or report of it, no book appeared. Inmost cases the books contained only one report from...
9.
Printed Ephemera: The Changing Uses of Type and Letterforms in English and American Printing
Contributors:
Publisher:
W. S. Cowell 1962
Subjects:
Printed Ephemera
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...Psalter, but a piece of printed ephemera. This was...the MainzIndulgences, printed by Gutenberg in 1454 two years before he printed his firstBible. Probably...This fifteenth century printing was influenced by the...underlyingtheme of this book, though this is no history of printing, for the...parallel the printing of books. The book printer tendedto...
10.
The Book: Its History and Development
Contributors:
Publisher:
P. Smith 1930
Subjects:
Bookbinding
Printing--History
Books
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...oftenwrong in either the printing, the paper, the horn...aproperly authenticated history with every specimen...before the invention of printing, but in printed formthey were most used...originally used for true horn books. Thename battledore...beating clothes, the horn books somewhatresembling this...
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