Catalog

reproductions of book covers borders initials decorations printers' marks and devices comprising reference material for the designer printer advertiser and publisher;

an exhibit of printing issued in England the United States of America France Germany Italy Switzerland Czecho-Slovakia Holland and Sweden during the twentieth century and with few exceptions since the outbreak of the war

a portfolio of original leaves taken from rare and notable printed books Apart from their picturesque qualities and historic interest these speciments will prove of great value in tracing the evolution of the printed page and the hand lettering from which it sprang Though complete in itself this portfolio is one of a series covering the world's literature from earliest times to the present day

a manual of American printing including a brief history up to the twentieth century with reproductions of the work of early masters of the craft & an extensive review and elaborate showing of modern commercial typographic specimens

aux XVe et XVIe siècles

their biographies printed books and devices

a review of some recent European and American work in typography page decoration & binding

a collection of one hundred seventy-two engraved title-pages and frontispieces of the 16th and 17th centuries

also some account of the origin and progress of printing

with notes on some colophons and twenty-seven fac-similes of title-pages

a brief sketch of the origin rise and progress of the typographic art; with practical directions for conducting every department in an office

being a chronological digest of the most interesting facts illustrative of the history of literature and printing from the earliest period to the present time Interspersed with biographical sketches of eminent booksellers printers type-founders engravers bookbinders and paper makers of all ages and countries but especially of Great Britain With bibliographical and descriptive accounts of their principal productions Including curious particulars of the first introduction of printing into various countries and of the books then printed A history of all the newspapers periodicals and almanacks published in this country Compiled and condensed from Nichols's Literary anecdotes and numerous other authorities

with a biography of printers and an account of newspapers