Item #099869 PRESSES OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS 1817-1867. Richard E. Lingenfelter.

PRESSES OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS 1817-1867.

A history of the first half century of printing in the Pacific islands. Woodcuts by Edgar Dorsey Taylor. Pp. xvi+130(last blank)+[2](colophon, blank), title page vignette, 10 plates (1 folding, and including 5 woodcuts by Edgar Dorsey Taylor), 1 full page illustration, folding map, chronological list of presses and printers, bibliographical notes, index; beige cloth, gilt lettered printed paper title label on spine, the upper board decorated in gilt; fore-edges uncut; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; The Plantin Press, Los Angeles, 1967. First edition, limited to 500 copies.. Item #099869

Price: $300.00