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A description of the early printed books owned by the Grolier club with a brief account of their printers and the history of typography in the fifteenth century.

Title: A description of the early printed books owned by the Grolier club with a brief account of their printers and the history of typography in the fifteenth century.
Author: Grolier Club.
Publication: New York, Printed for the Grolier club, 1895.

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	Rare Books+ 18-5385	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KP+ (Grolier) (Grolier Club, New York. Description of the early printed books)	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KAE+ (Grolier Club, New York. Description of the early printed books)	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	*GBK+ (Grolier Club, New York. Description of the early printed books)	Offsite

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Description

77, [1] p. ill.; 31 cm

Subject

Bruce, David Wolfe > Library > Catalogs
Bruce, George, 1781-1866 > Library > Catalogs
Grolier Club > Bibliography > Catalogs
Incunabula > Catalogs
Early printed books > Catalogs
Printing > History > 15th century > Catalogs
Type and type-founding > History > 15th century > Catalogs

Genre/Form

Private press books – New York (State) – New York – 1895.

Note

"... one of four hundred copies on hand-made paper, and 3 copies on vellum ..."
From "the typographical library [of] Mr. David Wolfe Bruce and his father, the late George Bruce ... given to the Grolier club."
Revised edition of the "Catalogue of early printed books, presented by David W. Bruce ... 1894." Descriptive and historical notes by R. H. Lawrence; translations from colophons, etc., by N. G. McCrea.
"The De Vinne Press."

Provenance (note)

Copy in Rare Books+ 18-5385, inscribed: in graphite, on lower paste-down, "Walpole. June 1919. n--Kz."

Binding (note)

Copy in Rare Books+ 18-5385 bound in publisher’s quarter brown leather with tan cloth, gilt spine title.

Call Number

*GBK+ (Grolier Club, New York. Description of the early printed books)

LCCN

04013229

OCLC

643804

Author

Grolier Club.

Title

A description of the early printed books owned by the Grolier club with a brief account of their printers and the history of typography in the fifteenth century.

Imprint

New York, Printed for the Grolier club, 1895.

Provenance

Copy in Rare Books+ 18-5385, inscribed: in graphite, on lower paste-down, "Walpole. June 1919. n--Kz." NN

Binding

Copy in Rare Books+ 18-5385 bound in publisher’s quarter brown leather with tan cloth, gilt spine title. NN

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Added Author

Bruce, David Wolfe.

Bruce, George, 1781-1866.

Lawrence, Richard Hoe.

McCrea, Nelson Glenn, 1863-1944.

De Vinne Press.

Research Call Number

*GBK+ (Grolier Club, New York. Description of the early printed books)

*KAE+ (Grolier Club, New York. Description of the early printed books)

*KP+ (Grolier) (Grolier Club, New York. Description of the early printed books)

Rare Books+ 18-5385

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