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Table of contents

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS  XI
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS  XIII
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS  XIX
FOREWORD BY NICOLAS BARKER  XXI
INTRODUCTION  XXIII

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
'Earliest Experiments in the Shaping of Books'  3
'Technical Success in Build and Presswork'  19
'Publisher in Earnest'  35
'Coarse Business' 47
'Bidding Goodbye'  75
'Conclusion'  89

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bibliographical Methodology  93
A Vale Publications  97
B Vale Press Publications  117
C Ephemera 191
D TypeSpecimens  215
E Projected Publications  219
List of Ornaments  223

APPENDICES
I A Notes on the Ballantyne Press  239
II Memoirs of Bernard Sleigh  247
III Description of Paul Verlaine, 3 Drawings  251

SOURCES  253

INDEX  259


 


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