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A PAIR ON PRINTING.
Atkyns, Richards and William Caslon
Introduction by Carey Bliss.
One of 500 copies. This is the first reprinting in facsimile of two important first books on printing in English. The first is Atkyns' The Original and Growth of Printing(1664) which is the first book devoted to the subject of printing; the second is William Caslon's first type specimen book, also the first English type specimen book. Carey Bliss, the curator of rare books at the Huntington Library, has written introductions for both books. Spotted along edge of front cover.
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A CHRONOLOGY OF PAPER AND PAPER-MAKING.
by Munsell, Joel
Fourth edition, revised and enlarged (originally published in 1857). A chronological history of papermaking with many interesting facts on early American papermaking. John Bidwell states that this book "is the strongest and most useful, on 19th-century American paper, paper patents, paper statistics, and curiously enough, paper mill fires." - Paper and Papermaking: 100 Sources, no. 11. Leonard Schlosser (An Exhibition of Books on Papermaking, no.66 - this fourth edition) states "Munsell was working just prior to the Second Industrial Revolution and used source material (he acknowledges, for example, Breitkopf and Koops). The book is valuable for the light it throws on the paper industry in the 19th century, especially in the United States, and for the service the author performed in recording interest in its development." Small spot on spine; inside hinge partially cracked. Much better preserved than most copies.
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