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Presenting the Oak Knoll Press
Fall 2012 Catalogue
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Welcome to our Fall 2012 catalogue featuring the newest and best titles devoted to the book. Containing brand new and upcoming titles, a section of our bestsellers, books distributed for many important bibliographical organizations, and a list of every Oak Knoll Press title in our backlist, this catalogue has books on bibliography, printing history, typography, library history, papermaking, bookbinding, and more. Below are some featured titles. We hope you enjoy this catalogue and look forward to hearing from you!
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This is the first in-depth study of an institution whose goal was nothing less than a renaissance of fine printing at a time when quantity mattered far more than quality. It came to be a far more international and influential institution than its originators imagined, its 16 volumes including the work of more than 1,000 printing establishments from 28 different nations.
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This is the first international publication written in English and Armenian on the history of Armenian printing. The art of Armenian printing developed in major centres like Venice, Constantinople and Amsterdam, but also in many others around the world. Its history moves along highways and byways reflecting the ups and downs of the Armenian people.
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Historical Types explores every major development in the design of type and includes some lesser-known designers whose type designs made significant contributions to the craft. Each entry consists of a double-page spread showing specially commissioned photographic reproductions of the relevant types presented with a size, detail, and clarity not seen before.
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German-born artist Hellmuth Weissenborn was forced to flee his homeland in early 1939 in the face of Nazi terror and found refuge in Britain. In this biography, the cultural baggage that he brought with him is explored: life in Weimar Germany, especially in the book arts, is the cultural context of his early life. Weissenborn's World War I diary, letters from his first wife, and interviews with former students and colleagues help to give an impression of the man and his life in what is the first full biography of the artist.
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This book is an examination of the origin, printing, binding and distribution of Jacob Bigelow's American Medical Botany, with special emphasis on the making and printing its colored plates. American Medical Botany is the only book published in the United States before the introduction of chromolithography to have its plates mechanically printed in color, not colored by hand in the usual manner of the day. This second edition contains, tipped in, two of Bigelow's original plates, one left uncolored and one colored by hand.
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This bibliography serves as a short-title catalogue of all the early printed editions of the Roman poet Virgil, from the first edition in 1469 up to and including books published in 1850. Virgil's three major poems, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid, have stood at the center of western civilization throughout the early modern and modern periods and have been reprinted, individually and together, throughout Europe and the Americas.
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