Personal Impressions: The Small Printing Press in Nineteenth-Century America by Harris, Elizabeth M - 2004

Boston/London: David R Godine/The Marion Press, 2004 Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Oblong Octavo. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 200 pp, preface, Small Presses in a Big Trade: A Survey; A Note on the Rail Presses; Glover Snow's 'History of Small Presses'; Kelsey's Own Story; Catalogue of Small Presses; bibliography and references, index with b&w illustrations throughout. First Edition, 2004. "This complete, definitive, and richly illustrated survey of small nineteenth-century printing presses, written by a former curator at the Smithsonian Institution, is the first history of these lovely, useful, and prodigiously varied machines. What the desktop computer is to today, these small iron workhorses were to the nineteenth century, and this book, which catalogues, describes, and illustrates over a hundred small printing presses and their makers, giving machine specifications as well as patent information, is a mine of previously undocumented printing history. No one seriously interested in the story of American printing can afford to be without it." Not Price Clipped. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Maroon quarter-cloth with gilt-illustrated grey paper-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine..