Specimens of handiwork by leading printers in all parts of America and many foreign countries.

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Title

Specimens of handiwork by leading printers in all parts of America and many foreign countries.

Coverage

Buffalo, N.Y.

Publisher

Ed. and conducted by E. H. McClure

Date

1886–1889/1890.

Description

4 volumes.

Begun in 1886, the American Printers’ Specimen Exchange required participating printers from the United States and abroad to submit 200 to 300 copies of examples of their best color printing, and in exchange they each received one bound copy of all the entries used. The Grolier Club has a growing number of similar examples of nineteenth-century “artistic printing” in its collection.

Source

Purchased in 2001.