Description

Volume 1, No. 1

1979

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.

Reviews

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.