MacKELLAR, Thomas. The American Printer: A Manual of Typography. Philadelphia, 1866. 12o, frontispiece, illustrations (first gathering loose). Original cloth (upper hinge cracked, tears at top and bottom of spine, 1-inch crack in lower joint, stains, rubbed). -- 12 other copies of later issues including 1871-74, 1878-79, 1883, 1887, 1889 (2 copies) and 1893 (2 copies, one of which lacks frontispiece and front free-endpaper). Together 13 vols. in original cloth, all but 1866 copy stamped in gilt (conditions vary). Provenance: W.J. Quackenbush (2 signatures 1871 copy), Edward Bushuell (signature, 1872 copy), Samuel Thaxter Farquhar (bookplate, 1873 copy), many with Jackson Burke bookplates. (13)

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MacKELLAR, Thomas. The American Printer: A Manual of Typography. Philadelphia, 1866. 12o, frontispiece, illustrations (first gathering loose). Original cloth (upper hinge cracked, tears at top and bottom of spine, 1-inch crack in lower joint, stains, rubbed). -- 12 other copies of later issues including 1871-74, 1878-79, 1883, 1887, 1889 (2 copies) and 1893 (2 copies, one of which lacks frontispiece and front free-endpaper). Together 13 vols. in original cloth, all but 1866 copy stamped in gilt (conditions vary). Provenance: W.J. Quackenbush (2 signatures 1871 copy), Edward Bushuell (signature, 1872 copy), Samuel Thaxter Farquhar (bookplate, 1873 copy), many with Jackson Burke bookplates. (13)

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