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(TYPOGRAPHY & PRINTING.) Group of 4 early, important First Editions on printing in America and England. Illustrations, color plates, and decorations. Various sizes, original bindings. Condition varies but generally good. Some are inscribed and/or limited editions. IO. Vp, vd
De Vinne. The Invention of Printing: A Collection of Facts and Opinions. In original binding (extremities faded and rubbed) and with prospectus bound in at rear. First Edition. New York, 1876 De Vinne & Co., The Roman and Italic Printing Types. Printed in black and red, with numerous decorated and illuminated initials. gift inscription and signature of Frank E. Hopkins of the De Vinne Press to Leon H. Vincent, literary critic and author of The Bibliotaph [Boston, 1899]. New York, 1891 Johnson, H. L. Historic Design in Printing. Inscribed and Signed by Johnson "To Dr. A. J. Philpott, A Master-Printer of Boston and a journalist of great renown. Boston, 1923 Johnson, A. F. Decorative Initial Letters. With dust jacket. number 172 of 500 copies and ex-collection monroe wheeler with his raised stamp at lower margin of title. London: Cresset Press, 1931.
