Printing History: The Journal of the American Printing History Association, No. 3 / American Printing History Association

Identifier:REF.SE.1403.03

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

Publication dates:1980

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

Description:Issue 3, Volume 2, 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 -- The Type Founders of new York City, 1840-1900, by Stephen O. Saxe -- Two Victorian Voices Advocating Good Book Design: II. Charles Kegan Paul, Perceptive Publisher, by Joseph R. Dunlap -- A Note on Bruce Rogers in Youth and Age, by Neville Thompson -- A Curious Document Attributing a Jewish Background to Johann Gutenberg, by Robert Singerman and Michael Pollak -- A Bradley Reminiscence, by William J. Dane -- BOOK REVIEWS -- Scott Bruntjen and Melissa L. Young, Douglas C. McMurtrie: Bibliographer and Historian of Printing -- John Tebell, A History of Book Publishing in the United States, Volume III -- Leona M. Hudak, Early American Women Printers and Publishers, 1639-1820 -- Sir Francis Meynell and Herbert Simon, Fleuron Anthology -- John Ryder, The Case for Legibility -- Notes on Contributors -- Letters to the Editor