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CANADIAN BOOK OF PRINTING: HOW PRINTING CAME TO CANADA AND THE STORY OF THE GRAPHIC ARTS, TOLD MAINLY IN PICTURES

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Toronto Public Libraries / The 500th Anniversary Committee, Toronto, 1940.. 130 pp. 8vo (9" H), card cover. B&w photos, drawings, reproductions. Arranged in three sections - the first gives a brief history of printing and how it spread across Canada; the second deals with type, composition, presses and plates; and the thi. rd covers the graphic arts - prints, engravings, etchings, gravure, lithography, etc. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light browning and soiling to covers, spine browned, small light stain to bottom edge . o f rear cover, small crease to top corner of front cover. G+.

  • Bookseller: Capricorn Books CA (CA)
  • Bookseller Inventory #: 12394
  • Publisher: Toronto Public Libraries / The 500th Anniversary Committee, Toronto, 1940.
  • Keywords: Books, Printing, Publishing, Canada, Quebec, Montreal, Printers, UELs, United Empire Loyalists, New Brunswick, Upper, Prince Edward Island, Missionaries, Journalists, Type design, Composition, Presses, Plates, Stereotypes, Electrotypes, Stanhope, Pl
  • Subjects: HISTORY / Canada / General;

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