PRINTING ARTS IN TEXAS.
LIMITED EDITION OF 50 COPIES
N.p.[Austin]: Roger Beacham Publisher, 1975. 107pp. Index. Bibliography. Illustrations by Barbara Holman. Designed by William Holman and printed by David Holman. Photographs. Foreword by Stanley Marcus. Cloth spine with special hand marbled paper over boards with a matching slip case. First edition, limited edition of 50 copies (out of a total edition of 395). SIGNED by Al Lowman, Barbara, Bill and David Holman. Fine copy (no dust jacket issued). The slipcase shows minor splitting (repaired) along the top edge, overall, very good. Jenkins, BTB 129: “This is the best history of fine printing in Texas. Itself a winner of design awards, it is in the words of Jo Alys Downs ‘a visual and textual joy….a masterpiece.’” A very handsome publication designed by William R. Holman, it is the definitive study of the fine art of printing in Texas from the early influence of Samuel Bangs up through Carl Hertzog, Jose Cisneros, Tom Lea, etc.
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