Add this copy of The Private Press to cart. $25.00, like new condition, Sold by Plain Tales Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Arlington Heights, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by R. R. Bowker Company.
Add this copy of The Private Press to cart. $31.50, very good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by R. R. Bowker.
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VG: Exlibrary book with a sticker on the dust jacket at the base of the spine. There is a stamp on the front free end page. The back pasted end page has a stamp, a sticker, and a due date card pasted in. Otherwise, the book has clean, bright pages and... An orange hardcover book with the title printed in gilt lettering down the spine. There is a beige dust jacket with the title printed in red down the spine. There is a mylar cover, as well. The free and pasted end pages are a heavy beige paper. Pages: (13), xiv-xvi, (3), 4-389. Contains 181 black-and-white illustrations. Contents are as follows: The origins of the private press--The quasi-official or patron's press--The scholarly press--The press as an educational toy--The aristocratic plaything--Private printing and the bibliomania--The author as publisher--Clandestine presses I: moral--Clandestine presses II: Immoral--Printing for pleasure: the growth of a middle-class hobby--Printing as one of the fine arts: William Morris and the Kelmscott Press--After Kelmscott: the fine press in Britain--Morris in America--Fine printing on the Continent--Between the wars in Britain I: the great presses--Between the wars in Britain II: backwaters and tributaries--Between the wars in the U.S.A. --World War II and the aftermath in Britain--The contemporary scene in Britain--The United States today--Canadian private presses--Fine printing Down Under--School and teaching presses--Early presses and their types--Morris and after--After 1918--The contemporary scene.
Add this copy of The Private Press to cart. $38.19, very good condition, Sold by Books From California rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Simi Valley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by R. R. Bowker Company.
Add this copy of The Private Press to cart. $60.00, good condition, Sold by Dunaway Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Saint Louis, MO, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by R. R. Bowker Company.
Add this copy of The Private Press to cart. $71.73, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by R. R. Bowker Company.
Add this copy of The Private Press to cart. $150.65, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by R. R. Bowker Company.
