Printing History: The Journal of the American Printing History Association, No. 2 / American Printing History Association

Identifier:REF.SE.1403.02

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 2, Volume 1, No. 2 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 -- Isaac M. Singer's Type Machine, by Madeleine B. Stern -- Violent Assaults on American Printing Shops, 1788-1860, by Rollo G. Silver -- A Sketch of the Brief Printing Career of David Cree, 1784-1786, by E. Richard McKinstry -- The End of Books, by Octave Uzanne -- Some Unlost Typefaces of Frederic W. Goudy -- BOOK REVIEWS -- Peter Sutcliffe, The Oxford University Press: An Informal History -- Nicholas Barker, The Oxford University Press and the Spread of Learning, 1478-1978: An Illustrated History -- Elizabeth Carroll Reilly, A Dictionary of Colonial American Printers' Ornaments and Illustrations; A Tribute to Alden Porter Johnson -- Edward Hodnett, Francis Barlow: First Master of English Book Illustration -- Elizabeth Harris and Clinton Sisson, The common Press -- Notes on Contributors -- Letters to the Editor.