William S. Pretzer, Tramp Printers: Craft Culture, Trade Unions, and Technology. Alexander Lawson, Teaching Typography.
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Peter M. VanWingen (reviewer), Christian Axel-Nilsson. Type Studies: The Norstedt Collection of Matrices in the Typefoundry of the Royal Printing Office; a History and Catalogue. Daniel Traister (reviewer), Miriam Usher Chrisman. Lay Culture, Learned Culture: Books and Social Change in Strasbourg, 148o-1599 and Bibliography of Strasbourg Imprints, 1480–1599. Stephen Paul Davis (reviewer), M. Crump and M. Harris, eds. Searching the Eighteenth Century: Papers Presented at the Symposium on the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue in July 1982. Larry E. Sullivan (reviewer), Alan Dyer. A Biography of James Parker, Colonial Printer. Richard Newman (reviewer), Donald Franklin Joyce. Gatekeepers of Black Culture: Black-Owned Book Publishing in the United States, 1817–1981. James Trissel (reviewer), Roderick Cave. The Private Press. GraceAnne Andreassi DeCandido (reviewer), Tiller: A Bimonthly Devoted to the Arts and Crafts Movement. Alexander Nesbitt (reviewer), Marc Drogin. Anathema: Medieval Scribes and the History of Book Curses. Sheila Waters (reviewer), Stephen Harvard. The Cataneo Manuscript: An Italic Copybook Larry Silver (reviewer), Sandra Hindman, ed. The Early Illustrated Book: Essays in Honor of Lessing J. Rosenwald. Paul Hayden Duensing (reviewer), William Caslon. A Specimen of Printing Types. Introduction and notes by James Mosley.
Judy L. Larson, Separately Published Engravings in the Early Republic: An Introduction to Copperplate Engraving and Printing in America Through 1820. Larry E. Sullivan, Old and New Directions: Doctoral Research on New York Printing History. Marcella Genz, editor, BR to Robert Ballou. [Bruce Rogers letter].
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John Bidwell (reviewer), Fred Schreiber, The Estiennes: an annotated catalogue of 300 highlights of their various presses. Roderick Cave (reviewer), William Morris, The Ideal Book. Essays and Lectures on the Arts of the Book. Paul S. Koda (reviewer), Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington,Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology. Bernard McTigue (reviewer), Susan E. Meyer, A Treasury of the Great Children’s Book Illustrators.
Thomas L. Bonn, The First Pocket Book. Michael Winship, Printing with Plates in the Nineteenth Century United States. Philip J. Weimerskirch, Ed., W. R. Chambers & Co., The Externals of Books [reprint].
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Sue Allen (reviewer), Joseph Blumenthal, Typographic Years: A Printer’s Journey Through A Half Century, 1925–1975. David Farmer (reviewer), John Dreyfus, A History of the Nonesuch Press. Larry E. Sullivan (reviewer), Henry R. Wagner & Charles L. Camp, The Plains & the Rockies, A Critical Bibliography of Exploration, Adventure and Travel in The American West, 1800–1865. Michel Thériault (reviewer), Elizabeth Hulse, A Dictionary of Toronto Printers, Publishers, Booksellers and Allied Trades, 1798–1900. Blanche T. Ebeling-Koning (reviewer), Robert Darnton, The Literary Underground of the Old Regime. Mark Farrell (reviewer), Nati Krivatsy, Bibliography of the Works of Gregorio Leti.
John Lancaster, Nineteenth Century America: Book Trade Technology and Social History. [Introduction]. Rollo G. Silver, The Power of the Press: Hand, Horse, Water, and Steam. James J. Barnes, Jonas Winchester: Speculator, Medicine Man. Stephen O. Saxe, Vincent Fitzpatrick, and Frederick N. Rasmussen, H. L. Mencken: in the Steps of Gutenberg. Neville Thompson, Bruce Rogers Looks Back. Elbert Hubbard to W. W. Denslow from The Sanford & Helen Berger Collection.
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Tobin A. Sparling (reviewer), Gordon N. Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 1700–1914. Marie Elena Korey (reviewer), Margaret Spufford, Small Books and Pleasant Histories: Popular Fiction and Its Readership in Seventeenth-Century England.
Roderick Cave, The Lost Years of the Golden Cockerel Press. Rollo G. Silver, The Convivial Printer: Dining, Wining, and Marching, 1825–1860. Alice D. Schreyer, The Permanence of Ephemera, [Introduction]. Katharine F. Pantzer, Ephemera in the STC Revision: A Housekeeper’s View. Georgia B. Bumgardner, Vignettes of the Past: American Historical Broadsides Through the War of 1812. John Buechler, “Adapted from an Old Book”: Some Sources for Chiswick Press Woodcut Initials. Robert D. Harlan, The Memoirs of William M. Cubery.
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Felix B. de Marez Oyens (reviewer), Peter Amelung, Der Frühdruck im deutschen Südwesten 1473–1500: eine Ausstellung der Württembergischen Landesbibliothek Stuttgart. Band 1: Ulm. Francis O. Mattson (reviewer), Giovanni Mardersteig, The Officina Bodoni: An Account of the Work of a Hand Press, 1923–1977. Daniel Traister (reviewer), Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformation in Early-Modern Europe. Rollo G. Silver (reviewer), Robert B. Winans, A Descriptive Checklist of Book Catalogues Separately Printed in America, 1693–1800.
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John Bidwell (reviewer), Madeleine B. Stern, ed., Publishers for Mass Entertainment in Nineteenth Century America. John Kaser (reviewer), Bernard Bailyn and John B. Hench, eds., The Press & the American Revolution. Robert Rainwater (reviewer), Basil Hunnisett, A Dictionary of British Steel Engravers. G. Thomas Tanselle (reviewer), Geoffrey Ashall Glaister, Glaister’s Glossary of the Book: Terms Used in Papermaking, Printing, Bookbinding and Publishing with Notes on Illuminated Manuscripts and Private Presses.
William S. Peterson, William Morris and the “Damned Chemists”: The Search for an Ideal Ink at the Kelmscott Press. Stephen O. Saxe, A Brief History of Golding & Co. Bernard McTigue, English Bookbinding and the Continental Woodblock Tradition. Theodore Low DeVinne, How He Collected his Bill. Alice D. Schreyer (editor), Mark Twain and “The Old-Fashioned Printer” [Speech by Twain to the Typothecae.]
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Elizabeth Harris (reviewer), The History of Printing from its Beginnings to 1930: The Subject Catalog of the American Type Founders Library in the Columbia University Libraries. Introduction by Kenneth A. Lohf. William S. Pretzer (reviewer), Comp. and ed. by John Gibson and Laurie Lewis, Sticks and Stones: Some Aspects of Canadian Printing History. Paul Standard (reviewer), A.S. Osley, Scribes and Sources: A Handbook for the Chancery Hand of the Sixteenth Century. Robert Rainwater (reviewer), Basil Hunnisett, Steel-engraved Book Illustration in England. Philip A. Metzger (reviewer), The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopedie, 1775–1800. J. Rigbie Turner (reviewer), Richard J. Wolfe, Early American Music Engraving and Printing: A History of Music Publishing in America from 1787 to 1825. James Green (reviewer), Marguerite V. Doggett, Long Island Printing 1791–1830.
Daniel Traister, The Renaissance Book, Introduction to conference papers. Elizabeth E. Eisenstein, The Early Printer as “Renaissance Man”. Natalie Zemon Davis, Misprint and Minerva: Printers’ Journeymen in Sixteenth Century Lyon. G. Thomas Tanselle, Analytical Bibliography and Renaissance Printing History. Ruth Mortimer, The Dimensions of the Renaissance Title Page.
Alexander Nesbitt, A Life with Type and Letters. Madeleine B. Stern, Every Man His Own Printer: The Typographical Experiments of Josiah Warren. John Bidwell, Some Caslon Ornaments in Some American Books. William Dean Howells, The Country Printer. [reprint from Scribners’ Magazine]
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Stephen O. Saxe (reviewer), Frank E. Comparato, Chronicles of Genius and Folly: R. Hoe & Company and the Printing Press as a Service to Democracy Christine Liska (reviewer), Joe W. Kraus, Messrs. Copeland & Day Susan O. Thompson (reviewer), Diane Chalmers Johnson, American Art Nouveau Jonathan A. Hill (reviewer), David McKitterick, ed., Stanley Morison & D.B. Updike: Selected Correspondence.
Stephen O. Saxe, The Type Founders of New York City, 1840–1900. Joseph R. Dunlap, Two Victorian Voices Advocating Good Book Design: II. Charles Kegan Paul, Perceptive Publisher. Neville Thompson, A Note on Bruce Rogers in Youth and Age. Robert Singerman, A Curious Document Attributing a Jewish Background to Johann Gutenberg. William J. Dane, A Bradley Reminiscence.
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James Wells (reviewer), Scott Bruntjen and Melissa L. Young, Douglas McMurtrie: Bibliographer and Historian of Printing. Robert D. Harlan (reviewer), John Tebel, A History of Book Publishing in the United States, Volume III. Madeleine B. Stern (reviewer), Leona M. Hudak, Early American Women Printers and Publishers, 1639–1820. Anna Lou Ashby (reviewer), Sir Francis Meynell and Herbert Simon,Fleuron Anthology. Joseph Blumenthal (reviewer), John Ryder, The Case for Legibility.
Madeleine B. Stern, Isaac M. Singer’s Type Machine. Rollo G. Silver, Violent Assaults on American Printing Shops, 1788–1860. E. Richard McKinstry, A Sketch of the Brief Printing Career of David Cree, 1784–1786. Octave Uzanne, The End of Books [reprinted from Scribner’s (1896)]. Out of Sorts Press (Larchmont, N.Y.), Some Unlost Typefaces of Frederic W. Goudy [Originally printed as a keepsake for the Goudy Society Annual Dinner in 1978]
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John Tebbel (reviewer), Peter Sutcliffe, The Oxford University Press: An Informal History [and] Nicholas Barker, The Oxford University Press and the Spread of Learning, 1478–1978 Catherine T. Brody (reviewer), Elizabeth Carroll Reilly, A Dictionary of Colonial American Printers’ Ornaments and Illustrations Daniel Traister (reviewer), Edward Hodnett, Francis Barlow: First Master of English book Illustration J. Ben Lieberman (reviewer), Elizabeth Harris and Clinton Sisson, The Common Press
Susan Thompson, Early Journals of Interest to APHA, Excerpts from five earlier printing related journals: The Typographic Messenger, The Inland Printer, The American Bookmaker, The Engraver and Printer, and The Printing Art. Rollo G. Silver, The Autobiography of Stephen P. Ruggles, [Partial transcription of an 1870 autobiography by inventor Ruggles (1808–1880).] Joseph R. Dunlap, Two Victorian Voices Advocating Good Book Design: I. Henry Stevens and the Shoddimites. Gordon B. Neavill, The Modern Library Series: Format and Design, 1917–1977.
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Madeleine B. Stern (reviewer), Marjorie Dana Barlow, comp., Notes on Women Printers in Colonial America and the United States, 1639–1975. (Review) Peter M. Van Wingen (reviewer), Nicolette Gray, Nineteenth Century Ornamented Typefaces. Joe W. Kraus (reviewer), Joseph Blumenthal, The Printed Book in America. John Bidwell (reviewer), J. Ben Lieberman, Type and Typefaces.
