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Descriptions of the work of modern private presses in Britain and the United States are included in this illustrated history of amateur printing since Gutenberg's invention
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The Private Press
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hardcover. Condition: As New. 2nd Revised & enlarged. ***Please Read*** VERY LIGHT FOXING ON TOP EDGE - No marks on text - My shelf location 21-D*GREIF. Seller Inventory # 251230017
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The Private Press
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Hardcover. An orange hardcover book with the title printed in gilt lettering down the spine. There is a beige dust jacket with the title printed in red down the spine. There is a mylar cover, as well. The free and pasted end pages are a heavy beige paper. Pages: (13), xiv-xvi, (3), 4-389. Contains 181 black-and-white illustrations. Contents are as follows: The origins of the private press -- The quasi-official or patron's press -- The scholarly press -- The press as an educational toy -- The aristocratic plaything -- Private printing and the bibliomania -- The author as publisher -- Clandestine presses I : moral -- Clandestine presses II : Immoral -- Printing for pleasure : the growth of a middle-class hobby -- Printing as one of the fine arts : William Morris and the Kelmscott Press -- After Kelmscott : the fine press in Britain -- Morris in America -- Fine printing on the Continent -- Between the wars in Britain I : the great presses -- Between the wars in Britain II : backwaters and tributaries -- Between the wars in the U.S.A. -- World War II and the aftermath in Britain -- The contemporary scene in Britain -- The United States today -- Canadian private presses -- Fine printing Down Under -- School and teaching presses -- Early presses and their types -- Morris and after -- After 1918 -- The contemporary scene. VG: Exlibrary book with a sticker on the dust jacket at the base of the spine. There is a stamp on the front free end page. The back pasted end page has a stamp, a sticker, and a due date card pasted in. Otherwise, the book has clean, bright pages and solid binding. Seller Inventory # 202698
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Second Edition. Cloth/gilt. Points faintly softened, tiny bump to bottom edge else unmarked, tight and square. The DJ in mylar is slightly toned. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall. Seller Inventory # 28714
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Hardcover. Quarto. An orange cloth hardcover book with the title printed in gilt lettering down the spine. There is a beige dust jacket with the title printed in red down the spine. The free and pasted end pages are a heavy beige paper. Pages: (13), xiv-xvi, (3), 4-389. Contains 181 black-and-white illustrations. Contents are as follows: The origins of the private press -- The quasi-official or patron's press -- The scholarly press -- The press as an educational toy -- The aristocratic plaything -- Private printing and the bibliomania -- The author as publisher -- Clandestine presses I : moral -- Clandestine presses II : Immoral -- Printing for pleasure : the growth of a middle-class hobby -- Printing as one of the fine arts : William Morris and the Kelmscott Press -- After Kelmscott : the fine press in Britain -- Morris in America -- Fine printing on the Continent -- Between the wars in Britain I : the great presses -- Between the wars in Britain II : backwaters and tributaries -- Between the wars in the U.S.A. -- World War II and the aftermath in Britain -- The contemporary scene in Britain -- The United States today -- Canadian private presses -- Fine printing Down Under -- School and teaching presses -- Early presses and their types -- Morris and after -- After 1918 -- The contemporary scene. Near fine. Hardly any touches of shelf wear. Seller Inventory # 210813
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THE PRIVATE PRESS.
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NY (1971), 1983
ISBN 10: 0835216950
ISBN 13: 9780835216951
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. Illus, 10 x 7", cloth, 376 w/index, v.g. in edge-worn & torn dw. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Seller Inventory # 83-487
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The Private Press.
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R.R. Bowker, New York, second edition, 1983, 1983
ISBN 10: 0835216950
ISBN 13: 9780835216951
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Cloth, 4to, 29 cm, xvi, 389 pp, ills. Rosenblum: "more than two-thirds of the book is devoted to the period since 1890 and the revival of fine printing, the period conventionally regarded as the heyday of the private press. An engagingly written, informative, and handsome volume." From the preface to the second edition: " There are some very real differences between the private press scene of the late 1960s and that of today. Changes in printing technology have vastly increased the difference in the ways trade books and private press books are printed. Many more books from private presses are being published sometimes at prices that run into four figures. There has also been very much more published on private presses since the first edition. When first planning the second edition I intended little more than a revision and updating of those chapters dealing with the private press scene in the United States and Great Britain from the 1960s onward. In practice, the rewriting has been much more extensive, with new material (where I have additional information or I have changed my opinions) in nearly every chapter. In addition to the rewritten chapters on the United States and Great Britain, there are many other chapters with considerable changes from the first edition: for example, the section dealing with Morris's American followers, and my revised estimate of the importance of the Vale Press, and the introduction of discussion of the Shakespeare Head Press. Chapters dealing with the presses of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have been added. Many new illustrations have also been provided. As before, I have attempted to show some of the different types of presses that have been owned or operated by amateurs who have worked outside conventional book trade channels in the past 500 years of the printed book. Some of them do not fit altogether easily into the section in which they are described; any classification for such irrational and eccentric undertakings can be little better than a procrustean bed. By no means have all private presses been discussed. Concentration has been on the English-speaking world, and the only recent Continental work described is that of presses such as the Plain Wrapper Press, which form part of the Anglo-American tradition." Very Good in yellowed and somewhat torn dustwrapper. Seller Inventory # ABE-35959
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The Private Press
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R. R. Bowker Company January 1983, 1983
ISBN 10: 0835216950
ISBN 13: 9780835216951
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First American Edition. Seller Inventory # 282876