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Author:

Kelly, Jerry, 1955- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85049245

Title:

A checklist of books published by William Pickering, 1820-1853 / compiled by Jerry Kelly ; with essays by Joseph Blumenthal and Arthur Warren.

Publisher:

Kelly-Winterton Press,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

ix, 56 pages, 59 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Subject:

Pickering, William,--1796-1854--Bibliography.
Typefaces (Type evidence)--Caslon.
Leaf books.

Other Authors:

Blumenthal, Joseph, 1897-1990. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50009591
Warren, Arthur, 1860-1924. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr97034500
Kelly/Winterton Press, publisher. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92086262
Studley Press, printer. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2002016247

Notes:

"300 copies printed from Caslon types. 20 copies are specially bound. Offset lithography by the Studley Press"--Colophon. Includes many actual size reproductions of Pickering imprints, and three tipped-in leaves from original Pickering printings. Includes index.

Contents:

The collaboration between Charles Whittingham & William Pickering / Arthur Warren [adapted from The Charles Whittinghams, printers (New York: The Grolier Club, 1896)] -- William Pickering, publisher: an appreciation / Joseph Blumenthal [reprinted, with slight revisions, from Homage to the book (Westvaco Paper Co., 1968)] -- The earliest revivals of Caslon old-face types / Jerry Kelly -- Checklist of books by William Pickering.

Indexed by:

Chalmers, J. P. Checklist of leaf books, 229

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56757270

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)