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Daniel Berkeley Updike has been described as "the most distinguished
American printer." He was one of a handful of highly successful and
influential book designers of the 20th century. His popular writings
have never been collected into a single volume until now.
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The Well-Made Book: Essays & Lectures. Special Edition
Published by
Mark Batty Pub, West New York, NJ, 2002
ISBN 10: 0971568774
ISBN 13: 9780971568778
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Seller: Plain Tales Books, Arlington Hts, IL, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition, Limited. "Special Edition". One of only 40 copies specially hand-bound containing tipped-in original specimens of Daniel Berkeley Updike's work referred to in the text. Signed on the colophon page by the editor, William S. Peterson. Housed in a matching slipcase. Laid in is a typed letter, hand signed by the publisher, Mark Batty, to the purchaser of the book. The special section bound-in at rear contains the following specimens of books designed & printed by Daniel Berkeley Updike: 1. An adaptation of the title page of The Life of Benvenuto Cellini. 2. A digital copy of a photograph of Daniel Berkeley Updike. 3. Vexilla Regis Quotidie. 4. Stevenson's Attitude to Life with Readings from His Essays and Letters. 5. The Marching Morrows. 6. A Renaissance Courtesy-Book / Galateo of Manners & Behaviors. 7. The Form of Consecration of St. George's Chapel (Middleton, Rhode Island). 8. Notes by Lady Louisa Stuart on George Selwyn and his Contemporaries. 9. The Life of Our Lord Written During the Years 1846-1849. Charles Dickens. 10. Some Aspects of Printing Old and New. daniel Berkeley Updike. 11. Facsimile of a page from The Book of Common Prayer of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, together with the Psalter (folded in rear pocket). . Signed by Editor. Seller Inventory # 027126
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