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Off the dead bank : addresses, reviews, and verses: PB 325-2003

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Titles

Off the dead bank : addresses, reviews, and verses

Maker(s)

Author: Rollins, Carl Purington
Designer: Rollins, Carl Purington
Publisher: Typophiles
Printer: Yale University Press
Binder (person): Boston Bookbinding Company

Categories

Description

By Carl Purington Rollins

Series: Typophile chap books ; 19.

Contents: A letter from Dikes mill -- Harmony of hand and machine -- The ordeal of William Morris -- Whither now, typographer? -- John Baskerville -- Oporinus and the publication of the Fabrica -- Reviews from the Saturday review of literature -- Verses.

139, [3] p. ; 19 cm.

Place(s) associated

  • New York
  • New Haven

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John

Dating

Production date: AD 1949

Note

" ... designed by Carl Purington Rollins, set in Monotype Bembo, printed at the Printing Office of the Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., and bound by the Boston Bookbinding Company, Inc., Cambridge, Mass. The edition comprises 675 copies: 300 for Typophile subscribers, 75 for contributors, and 300 copies for general sale"--Colophon. Quarter bound in red cloth with brown paper sides over boards.

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 325-2003
Primary reference Number: 98016

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 30 September 2019

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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