(PRINTING WOMEN) Grabhorn Jane; Goudy Bertha Rogers Bruce;

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CELEBRATING WOMEN IN THE BOOK ARTS (PRINTING--WOMEN.) Grabhorn, Jane; Goudy, Bertha, Rogers, Bruce; et al. Bookmaking on the Distaff Side. Illustrations, and specimen sheets bound in, accompanying the essays. Small, tall 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed hand-painted boards, gilt-lettered spine, darkened and rubbed at ends. [New York], 1937

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number 69 of only 100 copies. "Printed by Bruce Rogers, this compilation was created as a showcase for the contributions of women to printing and the book arts. In addition to Jane Goudy's humorous `Typographic Discourse' and `The Punctuation Pets,' by Ruth Douglas Keener, the volume included a serious history and bibliography, and essays on women calligraphers, papermakers, and typesetters. `Are Women the Natural Enemies of Books?' was written in refutation of an 1881 essay by Andrew Lang, in which he wrote that "Women [are] the natural foes of books," putting them in the same class as damp, dust, dirt, bookworms, careless readers, borrowers, and thieves"--from the Introduction to the exhibition "Unseen Hands: Women Printers, Binders, & Book Designers," Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.