The Lakeside Press

You and Your Friends are Cordially Invited to See an Exhibition on FIVE CENTURIES OF THE PRINTED BIBLE. The Lakeside Press Galleries. Chicago: The Lakeside Press / R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, (1957).

- Quarto, 16 inches high by 13 inches wide. Softcovers, bound in stapled stiff brown paper wraps with a vignette of a book in gilt on the front cover. The bottom right corner of the front cover is creased. 6 leaves, printed in 2 colors and illustrated with a wood-engraved plate in three colors by Bernard Brussel-Smith. The bottom front corners of the leaves are creased, else near fine.

[SW: FINE PRESS; BOOKS-ON-BOOKS; ART OF THE BOOK; INVITATION; EXHIBITION; ILLUSTRATED; WOOD ENGRAVING; COLOR; BERNARD BRUSSEL-SMITH; THE LAKESIDE PRESS; R.R. DONNELLEY & SONS; PRINTED BIBLE; RELIGION; GALLERIES; ADVERTISEMENT.]

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Sewall, John S. : Edited By Arthur Power Dudden: THE LOGBOOK OF THE CAPTAIN'S CLERK: ADVENTURES IN THE CHINA SEAS. Chicago, IL Lakeside Press/R. R. Donnelley 1995 ; fester Einband / hard cover
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BIOGRAPHY: ADVENTURE: 4 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches. 291 pages including index and list of other Lakeside Classics available. Illustrated with black and white engravings, color illustrations and maps. An eyewitness account of the American expeditions of the mid-nineteenth century that culminated in the establishment of diplomatic and trade relations with Japan. Brown cloth over boards. Top edge Gilt. Bright gilt lettering on spine and Lakeside press seal on front. Interior excellent. Lakeside Press /December 1995 No Jacket as Issued Hard Cover; Lakeside Press /December 1995

[SW: Biography, Lakeside Press Edition, Adventure, History, The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk: Advertures in the China Seas, John S. Sewall, Eyewitness Account, Voyages of the U.S.S. Saratoga, Opening Japan to West, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry. Exploration,]

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(The Colophon). THE ANNUAL OF BOOK-MAKING. New York: The Colophon, 1938.

- Quarto, light blue cloth backed natural buckram titled in black on the front cover & the spine with decorations in silver on the front cover. The spine is faded and soiled. 168 leaves, including the endpapers and blanks, profusely illustrated throughout, including depictions of works by W.A. Dwiggins, Rockwell Kent, and many others. Printed in colors on a variety of stock, the book includes signatures contributed by several fine & small presses, and major publishers, which serve to illustrate their work. Near fine. <p>The table of contents lists the following: "Binding design by W.A. Dwiggins", "Title-page design by Rockwell Kent", Foreword by J. T. Winterich", "American Institute of Graphic Arts", "University of California Press", "Alfred A. Knopf", "University of North Carolina Press", "Rydal Press", "Simon & Schuster", "Riverside Press", "Wolff Book Manufacturing Co.", "Walpole Printing Office", "Derrydale Press", "Paul McPharlin", "Hawthorn House", "George Grady Press", "Ward Ritchie Press", "Yale University Press", "Lanston Monotype Machine Co.", "Taylor & Taylor", "Press of the Woolly Whale", "Haddon Craftsmen", "Limited Editions Club", "Overbrook Press", "Lakeside Press", "Mergenthaler Linotype Co.", "University of Oklahoma Press", and "Pynson Printers".<p>From the library of Harold Hugo of The Meriden Gravure Company with his bookplate on the front pastedown.

[SW: BOOKS-ON-BOOKS; TYPOGRAPHY; ART OF THE BOOK; PRINTING; PRESSES; FINE PRESS; W. A. DWIGGINS; ROCKWELL KENT; J. T. WINTERICH; COLOPHON; ANNUAL OF BOOKMAKING; DESIGN; BINDING; "American Institute of Graphic Arts", "University of California Press", "Alfred A. Knopf", "University of North Carolina Press", "Rydal Press", "Simon & Schuster", "Riverside Press", "Wolff Book Manufacturing Co.", "Walpole Printing Office", "Derrydale Press", "Paul McPharlin", "Hawthorn House", "George Grady Press", "Ward Ritcfhie Press", "Yale University Press", "Lanston Monotype Machine Co.", "Taylor & Taylor", "Press of the Woolly Whale", "haddon Craftsmen", "Limited Editions Club", "Overbrook Press", "Lakeside Press", "Mergenthaler Linotype Co.", "University of Oklahoma Press", "Pynson Printers".]

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Kainen, Jacob: HALFTONE SCREEN.|THE, (Chicago, IL Lakeside Press 1951)
Contains nine large black-and-white plates. "This booklet and the article it contains was prepared as a keepsake for the exhibition on Halftone Engraving held in The Lakeside Press Galleries from October 23, 1950, to February 9, 1951." (from the last page). On the folder is an invitation for the aforementioned exhibition, as well as a description of the exhibition and a history of the Lakeside Press Galleries. Minor wear and soiling.

oblong 16mo., stiff paper wrappers, folder. not paginated.

[SW: PRINTING HISTORY, TWENTIETH CENTURY UNITED STATES, ILLINOIS LAKESIDE PRESS EXHIBITION HALFTONE]

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