Printing History: The Journal of the American Printing History Association, No. 4 / American Printing History Association

Identifier:REF.SE.1403.04

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

Publication dates:1980

Description:Issue 4, Volume 2, 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 -- A Life with Type and Letters, by Alexander Nesbitt -- Every Man His Own Printer: The Typographical Experiments of Josiah Warren, by Madeleine Stern -- Some Caslon Ornaments in Some American Books, by John Bidwell -- The Country Printer, by W.D. Howells -- BOOK REVIEWS -- Frank E. Comparato, Chronicles of Genius and Folly: R. Hoe & Company and the Printing Press as a Service to Democracy -- Joe W. Kraus, Messrs. Copeland & Day -- Diane Chalmers Johnson, American Art Nouveau -- David McKitterick, editor, Stanley Morison & D.B. Updike: Selected Correspondence -- Notes on Contributors -- Printing History Classifieds.