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GERMAN FINE PRINTING 1948-1988.

   

- New York : The Grolier Club 1992
- 8vo.
- stiff paper wrappers.
- Not paginated.
- Order Nr. 59102
- Price: $ 6.00



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Printed in an edition limited 1500 copies. A checklist of an exhibition held at The Grolier Club, December 18, 1991 to March 12, 1992, on German printing. It was printed by letterpress from Joseph Blumenthal's Emerson and Hermann Zapf's Hunt roman types at The Stinehour Press. Includes 130 entries and is illustrated.

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