THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA.
Pp. xvi+250+[2](colophon, blank), numerous full page illustrations (some coloured), selective bibliography, index; impl. 8vo; brown cloth, spine blocked in black and lettered and ruled in gilt; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, backstrip slightly faded; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, name in ink on blank preliminary leaf, the colophon slightly creased, a little light foxing; Scolar Press/Dartmouth College Library, London, 1977. First U.K. edition. *The title page vignette is by Fritz Kredel. A history of American printing, from Benjamin Franklin and Isaiah Thomas in the colonial period, to D. B. Updike, Bruce Rogers, the Grabhorns, and Frederic Goudy in the 20th century. Item #124779
Price: $75.00