Mar 12, 2009 - Sale 2173

Sale 2173 - Lot 375

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(PRINTING.) The Printers' International Specimen Exchange, Volume 2, 1881. Contains over 150 examples of high-quality advertisments, calendars, announcemnts, and other examples from printers of the day, using a variety of methods. Small folio, early boards rebacked and tipped with modern 19th-century style gilt stamping on spine; rehinged and with paper restoration to preliminary text leaves, scattered small clean tears to many margins and an occasional minor chip, scattered light foxing and browning, mostly marginal; specimens generally bright. London: Office of the Paper and Printing Trades Journal, 1881

Additional Details

Most of these printers'' journals were issued in runs of fewer than 350 copies. As many remained unbound or copies were disbound for the specimens, copies on the market are quite scarce.