Daniel Berkeley Updike and the Merrymount Press of Boston, Massachusetts, 1860, 1894, 1941 / by George Parker Winship
1947, First Edition. Rochester, N.Y. : Leo Hart. Fine cloth copy in a very good, somewhat dust-dulled and edge-torn dust wrapper. Provenance: bookplate of Frank Cushing. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #478486
Physical description; x, 141 pages : facsimiles ; 24 cm. Series; Printers' Valhalla. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Formative influences -- The way to independence -- The typographic adviser -- The printing shop -- Commercialization -- Private printing -- Stabilization -- Recognition -- Acceptance -- Success -- Specialization -- The war years -- Fructification -- Consummation -- Aftermath. Subjects; Updike, Daniel Berkeley (1860-1941). Merrymount Press. Printers Massachusetts Boston Biography. Private presses Massachusetts Boston. Winship, George Parker (1871-1952).
Price: €50.00