Oak Knoll

First edition, first printing. Front cover has become loose. Some chipping to the spine, else very good. The Printing and the Mind of Man exhibition staged in conjunction with the IPEX Exhibition of 1963, and immortalized by the substantially produced exhibition catalogue of 1967, was probably the most successful representation of the effect of printing on the social development of mankind. The concept behind this exhibition was actually formulated by Stanley Morison in 1938, who, in conjunction with others, staged an exhibition in Cambridge in 1940 to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the invention of printing. This resultant catalogue contains many embryonic ideas later contained in the 1963 catalogue. Carter gives service to this exhibition in the preface to his 1963 work. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted.