[Rarebooks] FS: Allen, Printing With the Handpress

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Offered today: 

ALLEN, LEWIS M. (1897-1966), editor. 

_Printing with the Handpress_. 

New York, etc.: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, (1969). 4to. 12 1/4 x 8
1/4 inches. (78) pp. Printed throughout in black and blue inks,
illustrated throughout by Victor A. Seward, pressmark and hand
decorations by Mallette Dean; text clean, unmarked. Black-stamped brown
cloth, dust-jacket; binding square and tight, jacket with a few
blemishes and shelf wear. The jacket is Very Good; the book itself is
Fine. 

$ 40 

FIRST TRADE EDITION, offset from proofs of the limited edition. Jacket
blurb: "This is the first thorough manual on hand press printing since
those of the nineteenth-century - which are now completely obsolete and
seriously misleading." This manual is very practical in addition to
being a beautiful book. 

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