The first printers and their books : a catalogue of an exhibition commemorating the five hundredth anniversary of the invention of printing / compiled by Elizabeth Mongan and Edwin Wolf, 2nd.

Main entry:

Mongan, Elizabeth, author, compiler.

Title & Author:

The first printers and their books : a catalogue of an exhibition commemorating the five hundredth anniversary of the invention of printing / compiled by Elizabeth Mongan and Edwin Wolf, 2nd.

Publication:

[Philadelphia] : The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1940.
Philadelphia : Edward Stern & Company, Inc.

Description:

94 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
"The cover design was taken from one of the illustrations in the Nuremberg Chronicle, a description of which will be found under No. 16 in the catalogue."--Foreword.
Includes bibliographical references (page 94).

Subject:

Free Library of Philadelphia Exhibitions.
Printing History Origin and antecedents Exhibitions.
Printing History Celebrations of invention Exhibitions.
Printing Exhibitions.
Incunabula Bibliography.
Incunabula Exhibitions.
Printers Europe Biography.
Books History 1450-1600 Exhibitions.
Imprimerie Histoire Origines et antécédents Expositions.
Imprimerie Histoire Célébrations de l'invention Expositions.
Imprimerie Expositions.
Incunables Expositions.
Imprimeurs Europe Biographies.
Livres Histoire 1450-1600 Expositions.
Printers
Printing
Books
Printing Origin and antecedents
Incunabula
Printing Celebrations of invention
Printing History Exhibitions.
Imprimerie Histoire.
Incunables.
Europe

Form/genre:

Printed books United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia 20th century Specimens.
exhibition catalogs.
Biographies
Bibliographies
Exhibition catalogs
History
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Wolf, Edwin, 1911-1991, author, compiler.
Free Library of Philadelphia, publisher, host institution.
Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 115712
Call No.: ID Z127.C5; ID:96-B2869
Status: Available

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