AN AMERICAN BOOKSHELF, 1755 by Wroth, Lawrence C[ounselman] - 1934

San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, 1954. Soft Cover. 299-314p., 23.5 cm. Biographical sketch of John Frampton, merchant and translator of Spanish texts about the New World into English. Offprint from The Huntington Library Bulletin. Stock# 35,138. Vg/ offprint

Providence, R.I., John Carter Brown Library, 1990. Soft Cover. xvi, 36 p., illus.; 28 cm. With a Checklist of the Items in that Catalog. "Published in conjunction with the exhibition The Book in the Americas organized by the John Carter Brown Library and presented at the Americas Society Art Gallery, New York, 25 January to 31 March 1990"--page facing title-page. While the then librarian/ director took credit for this, most of the books were obtained and all of the research was done before 1956 by Lawrence Wroth, a real librarian. Printed by the Stinehour Press. Vg/ soft cover. Stock#47393x.

[NYPL. 1943. Soft Cover. 27 p., 23.5 cm. Offprint from Bookmen's holiday; notes and studies written and gathered in tribute to Harry Miller Lydenberg , N.Y., 1943. Stock# 35,131. Good+/offprint.

Tallahassee: Florida Historical Society, 1941. OFFPRINT, pp. 3-46; 22.5 cm. Caption title. From The Forida Historical Quarterly. The John Carter Brown Library held most of the books listed. Vg/ wrappers wanting. Stock#26411x.

Providence, John Carter Brown Library, 1971 Printed at the stinehour Press. Soft Cover. And a Handlist of an Exhibition of his Writings in the John Carter Brown Library of Brown University. [32] p. "In a real sense... Mr. Wroth's career began when he arrived in Providence in the spring of 1923 as the Librarian of the John Cartere Brown Library. ...Mr. Wroth's achievement during the thirty-five years he was Librarian has two facets. He started by quietly disobeying the instructions of the obstructive member of the Committee of Management. ...Depending almost entirely upon funds outside the original endowment, which was used for operating the Library, he added 5,500 books of exceptional quality. ...The other facet of his achievement has to do with the use of the Library. ...Mr. Wroth undertook through his own writing to demonstrate the breadth and depth of the histoirical concept upon which the John Carter Brown was founded and has been developed." Stock# 21,282x. Cream paper wraps; VG

Offprint, pages 105-132, from Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 234 No. 2, August 1942. Stapled, in printed wraps; edges toned, very little wear; Very Good. Stock#ofc0581.

N.Y., Dover [after 1994]. Soft Cover. xxiv, 368 pages, 21.5 cm. "The definitive study of the American printer and his craft explores every aspect of the printing trade from 1639, when the first press was established in the [English] colonies to the end of the colonial period, about 1800." New from publisher. Stock#28148/h.

"Copyright, 1938, by The Southworth-Anthoensen Press. Second edition, revised and enlarged." Contents include The First Presses of the Colonies, Type and Type Founding of the Colonial Period, Printing Ink, The Paper of the Colonies, The Journeymen and Apprentices, General Conditions of the Trade, Bookbinding in Colonial America. xxiv, 368 pages, 24 plates, 6 drawings in the Appendix; Index, pages 349-368. Bound in dark green buckram, spine stamped in gold; spine faded, no dust jacket; bookplate; Very Good. Stock#ofc0569.

Worcester, Mass., AAS / JCB Associates, 1950 [Davis Press, Worcester, Mass.]. Soft Cover. 110 p.; 25 cm. Title continues: Exhibited at the John Carter Brown Library in the Spring of 1949, augmented by related titles from the Library of the American Antiquarian Society. Introduction by Edmund S. Morgan. Sections include House; Homestead; Farm; Staple Products; Mining, Manufacturing, & Other Industries; The Sea; Arts & Crafts; Science & Medicine; Finance, Business, & Law; Education; Welfare Agencies; Transportation; Military & Naval; Entertainment; Death & Disaster. Stock#20348x. Vg/ paper.

Providence. Very Good. 1971. First Edition. Softcover.