Edward Allde as a typical trade printer.

McKerrow, R.B.

Published by Bibliographical Society, London, reprinted from the Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, September1929, 1929

About this Item

Small edition of perhaps 20 - 30 copies. Printed wrappers, small 4to, 23 cm, pp [121-162]. Uncommon separate printing: from 1894 twenty copies of any paper printed in the Transactions were presented to the writer, and presumably a few more were run off. A paper read before the Bibliographical Society on 18 February 1929. From the introduction: " It is, I think, generally recognized that the printers of the Elizabethan period may be divided into two groups, according as they themselves published and sold the bulk of the work they printed - the so-called printer-publishers, or printed mainly or entirely for others - the so-called trade printers. .For example, John Day, Richard Tottel, and Christopher Barker seem never to have printed for any one else ; Bynneman and John Wolfe very seldom; while on the other hand some men, such as Henry Middleton, Arnold Hatfield, John Windet, and Humphrey Lownes, printed almost entirely for others and perhaps never dealt directly with the public, or at any rate never kept anything of the nature of a bookseller's shop. Their trade was in fact very much the same as that of most printers of the present day. Naturally enough, almost all the work that is good from the typographical point of view was executed in the houses of .". Scarce - no copy on JISC Discover. Wrappers a little darkened and chipped, otherwise a Very Good unopened copy. Seller Inventory # ABE-51485

Bibliographic Details

Title: Edward Allde as a typical trade printer.

Publisher: Bibliographical Society, London, reprinted from the Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, September1929

Publication Date: 1929

Binding: Soft cover

Edition: 1st Edition