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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition, limited to 1,800 copies, hardcover, has a slight lean to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends, mild wear to the cover edges and corners with a touch of fraying to the lower corner of the back cover, rubbing with a few scuffs to the covers, a touch of sunning to the head, a black mark to the head of the text block, and a crease to the upper corner of the first few pages. Overall, a Very Good copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good condition. Etat de la jaquette : No dust jacket. NOT a library discard (illustrateur). First Edition, Limited 1800 copies. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1938. Bookplate of distinguished bookseller William Wreden (1910-1995) on the front free endpaper. It is imprinted "From the Bibliographical Library of William Wreden." His renowned bibliographical library was sold at Swann Galleries in New York in a two-day sale in 1990. In memory of his continued support of their Libraries, Stanford University awards the Byra J. and William P. Wreden Prize for Collecting Books and Materials. Very Good condition. Hinges are perfect. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked, with almost NO foxing. 1938. First Edition. Limited to 1800 copies. Nearly 200 illustrations including 96 full page plates. Designed by Carl Purrington Rollins. Title page printed in red and black. Among the contributors are A. F. Johnson, Ruth Grannis, Philip Hofer, R. W. Chapman, Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt, and Dard Hunter. Said to be the best history of the book. Includes: THE HERITAGE OF THE MANUSCRIPT by Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt; THE INVENTION OF PRINTINGby Otto W. Fuhrmann; THE SPREAD OF PRINTING IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY by Erich von Rath, translated by Aileen Calderwood; THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY by A. F. Johnson; THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY by Margaret Bingham Stillwell; THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY by Lawrence C. Wroth; THE NINETEENTH CENTURY by Peter Beilenson; MODERN FINE PRINTINGby Ruth Shepard Granniss; A BRIEF AND GENERAL DISCOURSE ON TYPE by Carl Purington Rollins; THE HISTORY OF THE PRINTING PRESS by Davis T. Pottinger; PAPERMAKING by Dard Hunter; THE AUTHOR AND HIS BOOK by R. W. Chapman; THE ILLUSTRATION OF BOOKS by Philip Hofer; AN OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF BOOKBINDIN by William H. McCarthy, Jr.; THE LITERATURE OF PRINTING by George Parker Winship. Index. Bound in the original black cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine. Oversize Hardcover. 8.75" wide by 12.25" tall. This large heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. LEC Bibliography #S-4. First Edition, Limited 1800 copies. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 522pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Limited edition to 1800 copies. Size: 9"x12.25", 507pp., 190 black & white illustrations. Minor scuffing to covers, else very good clean & sound condition without glassine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good-. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Rubbing to cover. Light tanning to pages. ; #3 of The Dolphin.

Cloth. Etat : Near Fine. No Jacket. Boards lightly rubbed, else an excellent copy. Size: Folio.

Limited Edition. VG- (minus) , some rubbing & scuffing to boards, minor rubbing to head/foot of spine, corners & edges, previous ownerÕs name & date ffep, offsetting with a few small rubbed spots (as if stickers were removed? ) ffep. Overall a tight solid sound copy with bright clean unmarked text. ; Large 4to, black cloth, gilt lettering spine, top edge pages tinted red, 507pp. , index plus directory. Profusely illustrated. One of 1800 Limited Edition copies.

Illustrated. 1 vols. Large 4to. Etat : Black cloth. About Fine. First Edition, one of 1800 copies, designed by Carl Purington Rollins an printed at the Printing-Office of the Yale University Press. Illustrated. 1 vols. Large 4to. First Edition, one of 1800 copies, designed by Carl Purington Rollins an printed at the Printing-Office of the Yale University Press.

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1938. Grand in-4, rel. d?éditeur pleine toile bleue, dos titré, XV-507 pp.-[15]ff., texte anglais sur 2 col., 185 ill. en noir in-t. Index. Edition limitée à 1800 exemplaires. /44C Hardcover, black cloth. Endspine rubbed with a small tear. Fine interior condition.