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Art of the printed book, 1455-1955; masterpieces of typography through five centuries from the collections of the Pierpont Morgan Library
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- With an essay by Joseph Blumenthal
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- English
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- New York ; Pierpont Morgan Library , [1973]
- ©1973
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- xiv, 192 pages : 125 plates ; 31 cm
- ISBNs
- 0875980414, 9780875980416, 0879230827, 9780879230821
- OCLC
- ocm00799857
- Catalog of an exhibition held at the Pierpont Morgan Library, Sept. 11-Dec. 2, 1973.
- "Letterpress composition and printing in the Baskerville type for text, with Bulmer headings, and Perpetua for title display, by the Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont. Plates made and printed by the Meriden Gravure Company, Meriden, Connecticut. Typography by Joseph Blumenthal"--Colophon.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-183) and index.
- Preface -- Foreword and acknowledgements -- List of plates -- The great printers and their books / Joseph Blumenthal. Gutenberg and the advent of printing ; The spread of printing : Germany ; The spread of printing : London, Bruges, Basle ; The spread of printing : Italy ; The spread of printing : France ; The golden age of printing in France ; The Netherlands : Plantin and Elzevir ; Censorship ; The imprimerie royale ; The eighteenth century ; France and England in the eighteenth century ; The nineteenth century and the Industrial Revolution ; British private presses ; The German revival ; The twentieth century ; The revival in Europe ; The printed book in the United States -- Plate section
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- Pierpont Morgan Library -- Exhibitions.
- Books -- History -- Exhibitions.
- Printing -- History -- Exhibitions.
- Book design -- History -- Exhibitions.
- Bibliographies as Topic -- exhibitions.
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- Printing -- history.
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