Typographia: A Brief Sketch of the Origin, Rise, and Practice of the Typographic Art: with Practical Directions for Conducting Every Department in an Office.
Philadelphia: Printed and published by the compiler, 1837. First edition of a classic American printer's manual, kept in print until 1864 and ultimately replaced as the standard manual by MacKellar's American Printer in 1866. With four plates, printed on a clay-finished paper, including three showing presses: the Ruthven, Philadelphia (Ramage).....