Original publisher's gray cloth binding with green lettering and decorations. Illustration of a woman bathing in a pool while four men, backs turned toward her, read books. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2." Pages 171-328, complete. Black-and-white illustrations, complete. Advertisements for book-related businesses in the back. Pages and covers are very clean and intact except for slight darkening to the spine and a tiny spot on front cover. Binding is tight. A Near Fine copy. The Colophon was a quarterly periodical that was published from 1929-1950. The periodical was established by Elmer Adler (1884-1962), the founder of Pynson Printers in New York City. The articles of The Colophon cover a diverse range of topics, but all relate in some way to printing, publishing, art, and literature. The following are the features in this issue: "Huck Finn Aborning" by DeLancey Ferguson, "The Renegade Bibliophobe" by Barrows Mussey, "Christmas Cards in Summertime," "Familiar 'Small College' Quotations: Mark Hopkins and the Log" by Carroll A. Wilson, "Recollections of a Private Printer" by George Parker Winship, "The Bibliographical Way" by Lawrence C. Wroth, "The Hanging Judge Acquitted" by John Carter, "The 'Trial Books' of Dante Gabriel Rossetti" by Janet Camp Troxell, "The Romance of Scholarship: Tracking Melville in the South Seas" by Charles Roberts Anderson, "The Foundations of Music" by P. H. Muir, "William Byrd II of Westover" by Carl L. Cannon, "Notes and Queries" by Randolph G. Adams, and "The Crow's Nest" by Frederick B. Adams, Jr.

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Title

The Colophon: New Series. A Quarterly for Bookmen. Spring 1938, Volume III, New Series, Number 2

Publisher

Pynson Printers, Inc., New York

Publication Date

1938

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Collectible-Near Fine (Near Fi

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