walter lewis printer (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Half cloth paper covered boards (hardcover) with dust jacket (browned and damaged spine and folds), v, 35 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations (1 color), portrait ; 24 cm. Good/very good, light foxing in the margins. Only true first edition. Reportedly only 100 copies for friends. The first Cambridge University Press trade edition is in full green cloth and does not mention the printer Walter Lewis on the title page.

Zustand: Good. Large folio. 34 x 46.5cm. Original linen and cloth with some stains and new spine. One of 1015 numbered copies. Two prospectuses loosely inserted: Original Advertisement for the book, folio size and smaller one for the Second series. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:780566.lxiv, 152 unnumbered pages : facsimiles ;."The facsimiles in this volume . are confined to printed pages, taken from books to which a reasonable amount of care and discrimination has been devoted. The purpose of the selection is to exhibit current tendencies in typography and the allied crafts; to this end reproductions have been limited to specimens from books published during the last decade."--Page xi"Printed by Walter Lewis at the University Press Cambridge"-- Colophon."The edition of this work consists of 1015 numbered copies for all countries, of which 1000 copies constitute the ordinary edition and 15 copies the édition de luxe. The édition de luxe is numbered I-XV. Of the ordinary edition 650 copies have been printed in the English language and these are numbered 1-650; 200 copies in the French language which are numbered 'Edition française 1-200'; and 150 copies in the German language numbered 'Deutsche Ausgabe 1-150'. The text of the English and German editions is composed in the roman type made by Francesco Griffo for Aldus Manutius originally used in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and now reproduced by the Lanston Monotype Corporation, London [i.e. Morison's Poliphilus type], and is printed at the University Press, Cambridge, England. The text of the French is composed in 'Imprint' type, and is printed at the Pelican Press, London. The collotypes are by Messrs Jacomet, Paris. The paper for the édition de luxe was supplied by Van Gelder Zonen, Amsterdam; that for the ordinary edition by Messrs Lafuma, Paris, and Messrs Spalding & Hodge, London. The binding of the ordinary editions is by Messrs Straker & Son, Smith Brothers, London."--Page opposite title page;Includes index.

Accompanying this item is a piece of paper with the following note in a mid-twentieth-century hand: 'Interesting because of the very rare signature of Everard Peck, pioneer printer Father of Wm. F. Peck'. He was a bookbinder from Connecticut who moved to Rochester around 1816 and opened a bookstore. He moved into printing and publishing, founded the successful weekly "Telegraph" newspaper and later became a banker. He was a generous benefactor of the early city, co-founding the University of Rochester and the Rochester Orphan Asylum and becoming a leader in the Female Charitable Society. He was a member of the Pioneer Society of Rochester and Western N. Y., founded on September 30th 1847 at the Blossom Hotel in Rochester. Membership was open to local residents who had lived in the area since before 1825. The Peck family papers are in the University of Rochester. See Griffith's obituary in the New York Times, 26 November 1872. 2pp, folio. Fifty-two lines of text, with some underlining in red. In a worn leaf and discoloured leaf of paper, with chipping and closed tears to edges, but no loss of text. Folded twice into packet, docketed: 'Walter S. Griffith / to / Lewis Setze / Arbitration Bond'. Signed by 'Walter S. Griffith' and witnessed by 'E. Peck'. Begins: 'Know all men by these Presents, that I, Walter S. Griffith, of the City of Rochester in the County of Monroe and State of New York, am held and firmly bound unto Lewis Selze of the same place, in the sum of ten thousand dollars, lawful money of the United States of America'. Sets out that 'disputes and differences have arisen' between Griffith and Selze with regard to 'certain improvements and expenditures' made to 'a certain piece or tract of land lying in the City of Rochester, at and above the high falls of the Genesee River', purchased by them from William W. Mumford. Griffith agrees to accept whatever award is made by the arbitrators Vincent Mathews and Ashley Samson.