584 page hardcover descriptive bibliography with illustrations. Dust jacket is complete, and bright and clean- but has some light wear and small chip on bottom rear edge. Full light brown cloth exterior with title on front cover and spine in dark brown. Interior is unmarked, tight and clean - although the top page edges are lightly foxed.

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Titre

Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia Printing, 1728-1766: A Descriptive Bibliography

�diteur

American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia

Date de parution

1974

Langue

anglais

ISBN � 10 chiffres

0871691027

ISBN � 13 chiffres

9780871691026

Reliure

Hardcover

�dition

1st

�tat de l'article

Very Good

�tat de la jaquette

Good

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Franklin's printing house was one of the most influential in all the Brit. colonies in the 18th cent. Here are bibliographically accurate descriptions of the more than 800 items from broadsides to books printed by Franklin or by the partnership of Franklin and Hall. Lists 600+ pieces of job printing by Franklin, and another 100 items erroneously ascribed to the Franklin shop. Includes a summary account of Franklin's career as a printer in Phila., and individual essays on his dealings with the Brit. type-founders, the colonial Amer. papermakers, and the PA and New England bookbinders. Includes specimens of Franklin's first type fonts and pictorial reproductions of his stock of decorative ornaments and of rubbings of binders' tools found on vol. bearing his imprint.

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