A History of the Printed Book, being the third number of The Dolphin.
by Wroth, Lawrence C. (ed.)
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
4to. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1938. 4to, 507 pp. Black cloth boards with gilt-lettered backstrip. Very good; boards very faintly stained and scuffed, a clean copy within. § Still one of the best histories of printing ever published. 1800 copies were issued as Number 3 of the The Dolphin. Edited by Lawrence Wroth, librarian of the John Carter Brown Library and printed by George T. Bailey at the Printing-Office of the Yale University Press.
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- John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- A History of the Printed Book, being the third number of The Dolphin.
- Author
- Wroth, Lawrence C. (ed.)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Size
- 4to
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