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PRINTING TYPES, THEIR BIRTH IN THE TYPEFOUNDRY DEPICTED IN WOODCUT AND VERSE
Mahr, Karl

- N.P. : Privately Printed 2000 - folio - stiff paper wrappers, plain paper envelope. - (ii), 10, (4) pages - Order Nr. 105320 - Price: $ 200.00

Limited to an edition of 130 (from another copy sold by Oak Knoll). The text for this edition was translated and set by hand at the Private Press and Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing in Athens GA. All the press and production work was performed by Richard Hopkins' Hill & Dale Press and Typefoundry in Terra Alta, WV. The English text is set on the first ten pages and is accompanied by eight illustrations. The German text is on last three of the final unnumbered pages.

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LA PRESSE UNIVERSELLE. ORGANE OFFICIEL DE L'UNION DE LA P... 74 issues. Annual cumulative. Facsimiles., illustrated. Not in BUCOP. NUC lists 2 runs, detailing the NYPL run which concludes "no more published" after 1904, i.e. does not have the numbers issued in 1905. The journal was under the general editorship of J. B. Vervliet. One or two wrappers loose but on the whole remarkably well preserved set.