Introduction by David McKitterick
A Stickful of Nonpareil Introduction by David McKitterick
Printing Historical Society, 2009.
Facsimile edition. Green cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Line drawings by Ardizzone. A fine copy.
A memoir of life and work at the University Press, Cambridge, at the beginning of the 20th century. "These combined memories provide one of the most vivid accounts we have of conditions in a large printing house at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries." [Introduction]. Originally published in 1956 for presentation by the University Printer to his friends in the trade as a Christmas gift, this facsimile edition includes an explanatory introduction by McKitterick.
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