printing types birth typefoundry depicted von mahr karl (2 Ergebnisse)

Original Wraps. Zustand: Collectible; Very Good. 1st. The 2000 1st edition of this very handsome look at the printing process in typefoundries. The beautifully-printed text is complemented by the skillful wood engravings of Karl Mahr. VG in its stapled white wrappers, with light staining (which doesn't bleed thru at all) to the rear panel. Elephant folio (over 18" tall), 15 pgs.

Folio, pp. 10, [2]; 9 full-page wood engravings by Karl Mahr; original printed wrappers, loose and laid into a black cloth-backed red cloth binding, front cover stamped in gilt, fine. An excellent collection of portraits of bookmen and bookwomen working their craft. The edition size is not stated but Oak Knoll reports that only 130 were printed, of which only 28 were in boards. The cloth binding was done by Greg Campbell, Campbell-Logan Bindery, but this copy is not bound, as such, but rather laid in.