Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia Printing: A Descriptive Bibliography, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 102) (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society) - Hardcover

Miller, C. William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0871691027 ISBN 13: 9780871691026

Verlag: American Philosophical Society Press, 1974

Inhaltsangabe

Franklin's printing house was one of the most influential in all the Brit. colonies in the 18th cent. Here are bibliographically accurate descriptions of the more than 800 items from broadsides to books printed by Franklin or by the partnership of Franklin and Hall. Lists 600+ pieces of job printing by Franklin, and another 100 items erroneously ascribed to the Franklin shop. Includes a summary account of Franklin's career as a printer in Phila., and individual essays on his dealings with the Brit. type-founders, the colonial Amer. papermakers, and the PA and New England bookbinders. Includes specimens of Franklin's first type fonts and pictorial reproductions of his stock of decorative ornaments and of rubbings of binders' tools found on vol. bearing his imprint.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: American Philosophical Society Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1974
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0871691027
• ISBN 13: 9780871691026
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 277
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