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New York: The Grolier Club, 1926. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated with facsimile reproductions.. 4to. Pp. 12, (34). Introduction by Howard M. Chapin. Half cloth with paper spine label. One of 300 copies printed by Douglas McMurtrie on Arches handmade paper. Ex libris, Grolier Club Library, with their bookplate. Slight wear to extremities, else a VG copy. Quarter blue cloth binding over paper-covered board. Bookseller inventory A04044L.
GAZETTE FRANCOISE, A Facsimile Reprint of a Newspaper Printed at Newport on the Printing Press of the French Fleet in American Waters During the Revolutionary War by Chapin, Howard M - 1926
by Chapin, Howard M
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GAZETTE FRANCOISE, A Facsimile Reprint of a Newspaper Printed at Newport on the Printing Press of the French Fleet in American Waters During the Revolutionary War
by Chapin, Howard M
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New York: The Grolier Club. Very Good. 1926. Hardcover. Clean and tight in original binding of navy blue cloth spine over cream coloured boards. Contents quite Fine, faint linear shadow at front cover. Four page printed prospectus laid-in. Limited Edition of only 300 copies printed on Arches hand-made paper by Douglas C. McMurtrie, completed in November, 1926. This copy bears the handsome bookplate of Harris D. Colt. The Gazette Francoise newspaper translated various news items printed in American newspapers to keep the officers and men of the French Fleet in American Waters During the Revolutionary War abreast of political events in this emerging nation. It is the first known service newspaper published by an expeditionary force. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .
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- Publisher The Grolier Club
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1926
- Keywords Printing History, Early American Newspapers
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Gazette Francoise. A Facsimile Reprint of a Newspaper Printed at Newport on the Printing Press of the French Fleet in American Waters During the Revolutionary War
by CHAPIN, Howard M
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Gazette Francoise. A Facsimile Reprint of a Newspaper Printed at Newport on the Printing Press of the French Fleet in American Waters during the Revolutionary War.
by CHAPIN, Howard M
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New York:: The Grolier Club,, 1926.. First edition; one of 300 copies.. publisher's cloth-backed boards.. A few tiny spots to binding; otherwise fine.. Folio,.
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