Accession number
PML 252503
Published
New York, N.Y. : American Type Founders Company, 1914.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
Housed in patterned orange paper backed in beige cloth book-shaped box.
Library's copy housed in 1/4 red morocco over cloth solander box by J.P.W. with PML 252504.
Library's copy housed in 1/4 red morocco over cloth solander box by J.P.W. with PML 252504.
Description
15 pieces of type
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscription in ink on four pages mounted into case: The line of type contained in this case is four point Century Expanded Roman by the American Type Founders Company and was used to print a miniature edition of Franklin's "Way to Wealth" issed by A.T.F.Co., at the Printing Trades Exposition in New York in April 1914. This line was set by me, Wilbur Macey Stone Sept. 26, 1923 fot my friend Edmund G. Gress, editor of the American Printer.
Provenance
Edmund G. Gress; from the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
Summary
Nine letters with spaces creating an unknown line of type from a miniature editon of Benjamin Franklin's Way to wealth issued by the American Type Founders Company at the Printing Trades Exposition in New York in 1914. This line was set by Wilbur Macey Stone on September 26, 1923 for a Edmund G. Gress.
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