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(Letterpress Printing) Six books on letterpress printing and types Date Published: 1875-1981 Description: 6 volumes. A selection of books on letterpress printing, including a practical instructional manual from 1876 and catalogs of specimen books and typefaces. Lot includes: Silcox, George W. Vienna International Exhibition, 1873 Report on the Art of Printing and on Manufactures of Paper. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1875. Without wrappers; fair. Gould, Joseph. The Letter-Press Printer: A Complete Guide to the Art of Printing... London: Farrington & Co., 1876. Rubbed; shaken; toned; good. Bullen, Henry Lewis Duplicates of Type Specimen Books, Etc., United States and Foreign: For Sale by the Typographic Library and Museum of the American Type Founders Co.. San Diego: Frontier Publishing Co., 1972. Introduction by Richard B. Yale. Cloth. Five leaves of notes laid in. Near fine. Gray, Nicolete. Nineteenth Century Ornamented Typefaces. With a chapter on Ornamented Types in America by Ray Nash. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1976. Later reprint edition. With dust jacket. Jacket lightly soiled; near fine volume in very good jacket. Long, Robert P. Wood Type & Printing Collectibles. East Meadow, New York: Robert P. Long, Publisher, 1980. Binding rubbed with some slight loss at bottom spine tip. Very good. Allen, Lewis and Dorothy. The Allen Press Bibliography: Produced by Hand With Artwork, Sample Pages From Previous Editions. Greenbrae, California: Lewis and Dorothy Allen, 1981. Xerox copy. Condition: Overall mostly very good or better. Lots sold without reserve are sold "as is" and are not returnable under any circumstances. The minimum shipping and handling per invoice is $25 for shipments to the US and $50 for shipments sent outside the US Please consider this when determining your bid amounts Item#: 346747a Headline: 6 on letterpress and printing types, 1875-1981