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PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN, CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF FINE PRINTING AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Carter, John

- London : British Museum 1963 - 8vo. - stiff paper wrappers. - 125 pages and 32 plates followed by 62 pages and 16 plates. - Order Nr. 7428 - Price: $ 65.00

Important catalogue. Contributions by John Carter and P. H. Muir and an introduction by Stanley Morison. (Appleton no. 223). Loosely inserted in this copy is a four-page pamphlet "A Keepsake for Visitors to the Exhibition of Printing and the Mind of Man," a prospectus to the book that would be published, and a printed broadside that had been printed at the exhibition for the specific visitor (and has his name on it) This pamphlet summarizes what the visitor would see. Nicely designed. Some soiling of spine.

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