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Journals of Hugh Gaine : printer /

Gaine, Hugh, 1726 or 1727-1807. · 1902 · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. · 6 pictures

Edited journals and printing records of New York colonial printer Hugh Gaine, published in two volumes by Dodd, Mead & Co. in 1902 for collectors and students of early American typography. The plates reproduce woodcut factotum initials from eighteenth-century American presses: letters set in beaded scrollwork frames, beehive and wheatsheaf emblems, and a harbor scene with ship and rider.

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