Billheads & Broadsides : Job printing in the 19th-century seaport / South Street Seaport Museum; Stephen O. Saxe, et al.

Billheads & Broadsides : Job printing in the 19th-century seaport / South Street Seaport Museum; Stephen O. Saxe, et al.

Books

REF.EC.1660
Reference Collection
63 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
1985
Cornelia J. Walworth
Ann Ffolliott
Edmund A. Stanley, Jr.
Eastern Press
South Street Seaport Museum
Stephen O. Saxe
Trufont Typographers
New York City
Exhibition catalogs, Printmaking, creating with the arts, Billheads, Broadsides, Printing--History
Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title at the South Street Seaport Museum, May-October, 1985. "This catalogue, and the exhibit it accompanies, celebrate the ways in which printing, and printers, evolved to serve the changing requirements of New York's shipping and commercial community in the nineteenth century." (Edmund A. Stanley, Jr.; preface) Essays by Stephen O. Saxe, Irene Tichenor, Wendy Shadwell, Ginna Johnson Scarry, Elliot Willensky. Includes glossary of job printing techniques and presses by Stephen O. Saxe. Includes exhibition checklist by Kate Gordon.