The Printer, from The Printer's Carnival. by PLOUGH PRESS. KELLY,…

One of 100 copies

~ The Printer, from The Printer's Carnival.

Oxford The Plough Press 1986

One of 100 copies. With an engraving of a printer at work, in blue, to the title page. Set in Arrighi type and printed by Geoffrey and Paul Wakeman at The Plough Press. 8vo., original blue sewn paper wrappers, printed in black, edges uncut.

A whimsical 19th century poem on the art of printing, first published in 1875 by Love & Duncan at Airdrie, when the author was ‘but a few years out of his apprenticeship’.

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