Printing History: The Journal of the American Printing History Association, No. 1 / American Printing History Association

Identifier:REF.SE.1403.01

Dimensions:48 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Publication dates:1979

Library of Congress Subject Headings:American Printing History Association, Printing, Book industries and trade--History, Printmaking, creating with the arts

Description:Issue 1, Volume 1, No. 1 of Printing History: The Journal of the American Printing Association. Printing History started in 1979 as a scholarly journal published twice a year by The American Printing History Association. Printing History welcomes essays on the history of printing and book arts, regardless of country or time period, and ideally based on primary sources and illustrated. There are also book reviews at the back of many issues. Articles cover the history of printing, publishing, books, type, typography, paper and related industries. Contents: Editorial -- Early Journals of Interest to APHA -- The Autobiography of Stephen P. Ruggles, edited by Rollo G. Silver -- Two Victorian Voices Advocating Good Book Design: I. Henry Stevens and the Shoddimites, by Joseph R. Dunlap -- The Modern Library Series: Format and Design, 1917-1977, by Gordon B. Neavill -- BOOK REVIEWS -- Marjorie Dana Barlow, comp., Notes on Woman Printers in Colonial America and the United States 1639-1975 -- Nicolete Gray, Nineteenth Century Ornamented Typefaces -- Joseph Blumenthal, The Printed Book in America -- J. Ben Lieberman, Type and Typefaces -- Notes and Queries -- Notes on Contributors