
THE COLOPHON PT. 1
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Pynson Printers, February 1930, issued to two thousand subscribers. Hard cover, approx. 92+ pages. Removed from Collections from The University of Rochester Library. Brown boards with black lettering on spine. Light edge, corner and spine end wear; binding sound. Decorative end papers; book plate from University affixed to front paste-down. Library designation numbers stamped on a few pages in margin; embossed University stamp at bottom of first page. Light pencil completing/annotating contributors’ names. Small ‘Restricted Shelf’ type on rear end paper and paste-down marked out. Remainder of interior clean with occasional age spot. Includes full page “Chartreuse” by Alexander Raoul Stavenitz. ‘”The Colophon’s primary concern will be with collected and collectable books – first editions, fine printing, incunabula, association books, Americana, bibliography and manuscripts. The subject of book illustrations will receive attention, and significant examples, whether in copper plate, lithograph or woodcut, will be printed either from the original plates or blocks or reproduced in facsimile by one of the photo-mechanical processes.”’ (from first page)