Printing History: The Journal of the American Printing History Association, No. 6 / American Printing History Association

Identifier:REF.SE.1403.06

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

Creation dates:1982

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

Description:Issue 6, Volume 3, 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 -- William Morris and the "Damned Chemists": The Search for an Ideal Ink at the Kelmscott Press, by William S. Peterson -- A Brief History of Golding & Co., by Stephen O. Saxe -- English Bookbinding and the Continental Woodblock Tradition, by Bernand McTigue -- How He Collected His Bill, by Theo L. Devinne -- Mark Twain and "The Old-Fashioned Printer", edited by Alice D. Schreyer -- BOOK REVIEWS -- The History of Printing from Its Beginning to 1930: The Subject Catalogue of the American Type Founders Company Library in the Columbia University Libraries -- A.S. Osley, Scribes and Sources: A Handbook of the Chancery Hand in the Sixteenth Century -- Robert Darnton, The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopedie, 1775-1800 -- Richard J. Wolfe, Early American Music Engraving and printing: A History of Music Publishing in America from 1787 to 1825 -- Marguerite V. Doggett, Long Island Printing, 1791-1830 -- Basil Hunnisett, Steel-engraved Book Illustration in England -- Comp. and ed. by John Gibson and Laurie Lewis, Sticks and Stones: Some Aspects of Canadian Printing History -- Notes on Contributors -- Letters to the Editor.