An Abridgement of Johnson's Typographia, or The Printers' Instructor:. with an Appendix

by Thomas F. Adams

$1,500 · Offered by The Veatchs Arts of the Book

Boston: C. L. Adams, 1828. 4 3/4 x 7 1/2. Frontis of a Columbian Press, title, Preface, 316 pages plus tipped recipe for making composition for rollers and two plates of Hoe printing presses. Recent morocco-backed marbled boards and endpapers. Bookplate. Bookplate of Jacob L. Chernofsky. Fine. Item #15369 The second comprehensive American printer's manual, and the first American edition of Johnson. Mostly an

• Binding: Leather

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