The printed book in America / Joseph Blumenthal

Identifier:REF.BC.2243

Dimensions:xvi, 251 s. : illustrations

Publication dates:1977

Subjects: Book design -- United States -- History., Books -- History., Printing -- United States -- History.

Description:"The Printed Book in America is a narrative of how printing arrived, spread, and flourished in the American colonies - of how it gradually attained, in its finest manifestations, the status of art - of how in this century it had associated with it such diverse and extraordinary talents such as Updike, Rogers, Goudy, Dwiggins, Ruzicka, and the Grabhorns. Besides treating of the country's great typographers, there are discussed private and special presses which, building upon the heritage of the past, have carried forward traditions and enriched aesthetic achievements in American printing and bookmaking." - Description taken from the book jacket