PAGA Printing and Graphic Arts Volume IX edited by Ray Nash and published by The Stinehour Press of Lunenburg Vermont in 1961. Attractive hardcover edition devoted to the history of typography fine printing book arts type foundries private presses and graphic design.

An important reference for collectors of printing history typography letterpress book illustration fine press publishing and graphic arts scholarship.

Notable contents include:

* The Great Western Type Foundry of Barnhart Brothers and Spindler 1869 to 1933

* A Design Yardstick for Typography

* Philadelphia Fine Printing 1780 to 1820

* Barnhart Brothers and Spindler Specimen Books

* Some American Wood Engravers 1820 to 1840

* The Irish Book

* A Gaelic Alphabet

* The Artist and the Book 1860 to 1960

* Talbot Baines Reed

* The Origin and Development of Humanistic Script

* Extensive book reviews and bibliographic notices

Illustrated throughout with typography examples specimen pages engravings fine press reproductions type design studies and printing history research.

Hardcover volume with attractive publisher binding. Interior pages appear clean and bright with solid binding and light shelf wear from age. Please review photographs carefully for condition details.

An increasingly scarce title sought by collectors of private press books type specimen literature letterpress printing graphic design publishing history and fine book production.

140 pages