The well-made book : essays & lectures / by Daniel Berkeley Updike ; edited by William S. Peterson

West New York, NJ : Mark Batty, Publisher, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xxi, 383 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; On the planning of printing -- Style in the use of type -- The seven champions of typography -- The essentials of a well-made book -- The place of the educated man in the printing industry -- Gutenberg and his relation to printers today -- Review of Four centuries of fine printing by Stanley Morison -- Some notes on liturgical printing -- Notes supplementary to Gough's Memoirs -- Some revivals of printing in the nineteenth century -- Ecclesiastical printing -- George Lepreux and the Gallia typographica -- Thomas Maitland Cleland -- Rudolph Ruzicka : an appreciation -- Some tendencies in modern typography -- American university presses -- Description of the Merrymount Press -- Notes on the Merrymount Press and its work -- To the trade -- On the decorations of the limited edition of standard prayer book of MDCCCXCII -- To the clergy and laity of the Episcopal church -- The black art : a homily -- Announcement of Mr. Berkeley Updike for the autumn of MDCCCXCV -- Merrymount : being a few words on the derivation of the name of the Merrymount Press -- Designs to be used with type -- An address to the Grolier Club -- The ""lost"" Caslon specimen of 1748 -- What the printer can do for an architect -- A translation of the reports of Berlier & Sobry on types of Gill� fils -- A Merrymount exhibition of 1928 -- An autobiographical note -- Bruce Rogers and the Oxford lectern Bible -- The Merrymount Press, Boston -- The Updike collection of books on printing at the Providence Public Library -- Recollections of the Athenaeum, 1878 and 1879 -- Nota bene -- Metropolitan Museum printing -- A note on Bruce Rogers -- Stanley Morison -- A Merrymount exhibition of 1940 -- A last word. Subjects; Merrymount Press History. Merrymount Press. Printing History. Printing United States History. Fine books History. Imprimerie Histoire. Imprimerie �tats-Unis Histoire. Typography.