Reproductions of 1568 woodcuts accurately depicting the draughtsman, wood-cutter, papermaker, printer, and bookbinder with each accompanied by period verse.
Displayed on the left is the cover and the title page. The two-page spread on the right shows the woodcuts of The Papermaker and The Printer. Click on either image to view a larger picture and then close that new window to return to this page.
Printed on Fabriano paper and sewn into marbled paper wrappers. 4" x 6-1/4". 16 pp. $18.00
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Though the text of this piece discusses in unique, insightful ways, two great rivers, the Mississippi and the Missouri, the real story is about Freedom of the Press and Elijah P. Lovejoy's fight to preserve this most sacred of rights.
Set in Frederic Goudy's Ornate and Kennerley types and sewn into marbled paper wrappers. 5" x 8-3/4". 12 pp. $18.00.
Being an excerpt from The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac with alphabet cuts and related couplets from the New England Primer, Field writes from the perspective of a 70-year-old book collector reminiscing about his first encounter with the Primer and a certain young lady named Captivity Waite.
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Printed on Ingres Antique Eggshell with marbled endpapers and sewn into Roma wrappers. 24 pp. $17.50
As Secretary of the Missouri Territory, Edward Bates compiled The Laws of the Territory of Louisiana. This piece is about the copy of Laws Bates gave to The St. Louis Mercantile Library as told in the letter Bates sent to explain his gift.
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Printed in three colors on Bishopstoke, an English Handmade paper from the 1930s, with blue endpapers and hemp dividers and sewn into wrappers. 12 pp. $13.50
For nearly a century and a half England had restricted the liberty of the press and the number of printing offices. In 1725 William Parks removed to America and soon became Virginia's public printer. About 1730 he published James Markland's Typographia: An Ode on Printing, the first American contribution to the literature of typography.
This booklet tells that story and reprints key passages from Markland's Ode. Shown here is the front cover and the title page. Click on the image to view a larger picture and then close that new window to return to this page.
Printed on Arches Laid on the 200th anniversary of the Bill of Rights and sewn into period style marbled paper. 16 pp. $19.50