Printing with the Handpress: Herewith a Definitive Manual to Encourage Fine Printing Through Hand-Craftsmanship
by Allen, Lewis M
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1969 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Second Printing. 4to. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 75 (3) pp, list of b&w illustrations, introduction, I. Basic Equipment; II. The Iron Handpress; III. Assembling the Press; IV. Guide-Pins and Points; V. Using the Frisket; VI. The Cylinder Press; VII. Paper and Damping; VIII. Ink and Inking; IX. The Use of Bearers; X. Miscellaneous Notes; XI. A Day at the Press; appendix, bibliography, index. Second Printing, 1969. Not Price Clipped. 1/8" square chip to top edge front panel dj with minor edge wear, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Pictorial cloth with black cloth to spine..
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002957
- Title
- Printing with the Handpress: Herewith a Definitive Manual to Encourage Fine Printing Through Hand-Craftsmanship
- Author
- Allen, Lewis M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Publisher
- Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- BOOKS & PUBLISHING PRINTING THE HANDPRESS CRAFTSMANSHIP GUIDE
- Bookseller catalogs
- BOOKS & PUBLISHING;
- Size
- 4to
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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