Photographs, lantern slides, drawings, pamphlets, and other material related to the history of the University Press. ca. 1945.

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Photographs, lantern slides, drawings, pamphlets, and other material related to the history of the University Press. ca. 1945.

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Collection documents the history of the University Press and includes photographs of the company's presses, its library, etc., and a printed sheet (62 x 23 cm.) with its many printers' devices. Contains 3 boxes of glass slides for illustrated talks and six pamphlets, as well as original ink drawings with ms. notes ([2] leaves). The drawings, which include diagrams of early printing presses, were reproduced in some of the firm's pamphlets and lantern slides.

52 photographic prints : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. and smaller.18 lantern slides : b&w ; 9 x 11 cm.6 drawings : pen and ink, wash ; 29 x 37 and smaller.6 pamphlets : ill., maps ; 28 cm. and smaller.

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University Press (Cambridge, Mass.)

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This special limited issue of The triumphs of Francesco Petrarch, Florentine poet laureate / translated by Henry Boyd with an introduction by Doctor Guido Biagi, was published in 1906 in the United States by Little, Brown and Company, and in London by John Murray. It was printed at the University Press, Cambridge, Mass. from a Humanistic type designed by William Dana Orcutt (1870-1953). The type was developed especially for this series, the "Humanistic series." The type was hand-cut in steel at ...

Day, Stephen, 1594?-1668

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Tolman Print-University Press.

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