Search Results: Printing from Charles Agvent

Albany: Charles Van Benthuysen, 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Rubbed. Contents clean. Octavo in contemporary 1/2 black morocco leather with morocco tips; 143 pages. Scarce early American catalogue on the subject.

Boston: The Engraver and Printer Co., (August 1895). First Edition. Softcover. Library blindstamp on the corners of some pages; rear cover detached. Very Good. Decorated wraps; 116 pages plus ads. Includes articles on lettering and job estimates as well as an illustrated section on the origin and growth of the Roman letter.

Washington: Library of Congress, 1973. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. Facsimiles. Quarto, 87 pages.

London: Monotype Corp, 1964. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. Printed wraps; 29 pages and 9 plates. Prined by the University Press, Oxford. Preface by Frank Francis, Stanley Morison, and John Carter. The text of a lecture on the exhibition Printing and the Mind of Man whose subject was the contribution of print to public debate as an essential preliminary to the formation of democratic public policy. This copy INSCRIBED by Carter on the front endpaper: "for E. A. Lowe/from the writer of the Preface/9 Sept. 64." There is also a signature of "John Carter" at the top of the front cover, but the handwriting does not completely resemble Carter's.

New York: Privately Printed, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. One page, mostly blank, with a long horizontal tear. Very Good. Cloth-backed boards; [vi] 111 pages. Printed by the De Vinne Press in the Renner type De Vinne designed, on Umbria handmade paper. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of De Vinne with his signature below, possibly printed, and a gravure of a bronze bust by Chester Beach. Laid down on the pastedown above a bookplate is a compliments card from De Vinne. Apparently issued with a slipcase not present here.