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Wroth, Lawrence C.. THE COLONIAL PRINTING PRESS A Chapter from the Colonial Printer. The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland Maine, 1938.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Original wraps. Light general wear, a bit rubbed with color fading at edges. A nice copy with clean, bright interior pages and solid binding. Uncommon. ; 8vo; 21 pages

Seller: Carlson Turner Books, Portland, ME, U.S.A.

Lawrence C Wroth. The Colonial Printing Press: A Chapter from the Colonial Printer. The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland, ME, 1938.

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Condition: Very Good

Description: . . . . Limited edition, unnumbered, one of 1500 copies 8vo, hardcover. No dj, green cloth. Vg+ condition. Slipcased. Slipcase rubbed and edgeworn; covers and contents crisp, clean, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 368 pp., sev. illus. 18th, American, Books, Century, History, Printing, Production,

Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.

Wroth, Lawrence C. The colonial printer,. The Southworth-Anthoensen press, 1938.

Price: US$29.45 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 30 plates. Text is clean and bright, binding is tight, black hardcover boards have a few scuff marks, corners bumped, ex-library with stamps and card in back. 100% Money Back Guarantee! Ships within 1 business day, includes tracking. Carefully packed. Serving satisfied customers since 1987.

Seller: DIANE Publishing Co., Darby, PA, U.S.A.

Wroth, Lawrence C.. COLONIAL PRINTER.|THE. The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland, ME, 1938.

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Description: tall 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt, slipcase. xxiv, 368 pages. Second edition, revised, limited to 1500 copies. With chapters on the first presses, the Colonial printing house, ink, type, bookbinding, etc. With illustrations. Spine covering eaten away by insects. Good candidate for rebinding. Ownership inscription in pencil.

Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.

Wroth, Lawrence.. THE COLONIAL PRINTING PRESS A Chapter from the Colonial Printer.. The Southworth-Anthoensen Press: Portland, 1938.

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Description: Illustr, 9.5 x 6.25, wraps, (22 pp) + four plates, covers worn, soiled, spotted, creased, pencil name on cover, text block separated from covers and cracked, a few small tears else good. Printed on the front cover Compliments of Tileston & Hollingsworth Company. Sold as is. FIRST ED.

Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.

Wroth, Lawrence C.. The Colonial Printing Press: A Chapter from the Colonial Printer. The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland, ME, 1938.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Light general wear with faint rubbing to the edges of the paper covers. A nice copy. 21 pages.

Seller: Yes Books, portland, ME, U.S.A.

Lawrence C. Wroth. THE COLONIAL PRINTER. The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine, 1938.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: A Fine copy of the Second Enlarged Edition, limited to 1500 copies, and housed in the publisher's slipcase. Pages unopened.~~There are no ownership or other marks of any kind in this book. Fine binding.

Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.

Wroth, Lawrence C.. The Colonial Printer. The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine, 1938.

Price: US$169.95 + shipping

Description: Octavo. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Of this editionthere were 1500 copies printed on rag paper at The Southworth_Anthoensen Press, Portland, Main. xxiv, 368 pages, with plates, facsimiles, and diagrams. The first edition, which appeared in 1931, was quite good but here the author has added much material found nowhere else. He details the difficulty in the early colonial days of getting ink, typeface, and paper. Paper, above all, was a problem for the colonial printer. They not only begged for rags but offered to pay for them, the earliest manufacture of ink was from lampblack and making it was a nasty business. Since whole families were involved with the earliest colonial printing, it was not unusual that women took over the business when their husbands passed and eventually were recognized as independent business operators. In the early days, the printer often had to practice elementary bookbinding. There was the problem of qualified labor for compositors, Benjamin Franklin complained of needing another hand but the pay of working with 100 ems per unit while slightly above that of the average workman was a problem since few had both the literacy and the manual facility to cast type properly. A handsome copy bound in green cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, housed within publishers' slipcase. From the library of Irving Kinsman Annable, Printer at The Berkeley Press, Boston with his bookplate.

Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.

WROTH, Lawrence C.. Colonial Printer. , 1938.

Price: US$192.50 + shipping

Description: WROTH, Lawrence C. The Colonial Printer. Original cloth. Illustrated. Portland: The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1938. Second (and best) edition, revised and enlarged. Limited to 1,500 copies. A fine copy.

Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.