The American Printer, Benjamin Franklin Bi-Centennial Edition 1923

Quarter leather, with many adverts and articles on the American printing industry and relating to Franklin

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First edition. Hardback, rebound in quarter leather with gilt titling to spine, marbled paper covered boards. Original covers retained. 31 × 22.5cm, 128pp.

This issue of The American Printer was published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin, and features a series of articles and illustrations celebrating Franklin, and a large number of adverts for the printing industry most of which have an image or reference to Franklin. The articles include: The Portraits of Benjamin Franklin by John Clyde Oswald; Franklin, A Hero to Young Folks by Wilbur Macey Stone, How Franklin became a Publisher (anonymous); Printing and Printers of Franklin's Time by Chas. T Jacobi; Presidential Eulogies of Franklin by J Linton Engle; and further articles on the printing industry. The adverts are inserted throughout and include some wonderful colour and b&w images showing the printing process, printers, publishers and artists include: Southworth Press, Pelican Press, the Ketterlinus Lithographic Printing Co, C Lovat Fraser, William Caslon, Tri-Arts Press and so on. A lovely item.

Condition

Very good condition. There is rubbing to the board's edges and the book has a very slightly musty odour but the leather spine is in very good order. The inner binding is secure, the pages clean bar the occasional spot of foxing. Previous owner's name to the original front cover (Harold P—surname indecipherable).

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