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Elmer Adler (Editor) et al : The Colophon: A Quarterly for Collectors & Lovers of Books. Part Sixteen

Pynson Printers, Incorporated, New York, 1934

Limited Edition. One of 2500 copies. Original publisher's beige paper-covered boards with a black, orange, and beige illustration on front cover of books and a decorative quill. Beige lettering on orange spine. 8 3/4" x 10 3/4" x 1/2." Unpaginated, all pages, complete. Illustrations in black-and-white and color, complete. Two pieces of Colophon ephemera laid in, the Colophon Crier for Part Sixteen and a paper slip advertising The Colophon and a leather slipcase to hold issues of The Colophon. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Slight rubbing to covers and spine. Slight wear to extremities. Boards have light age toning throughout. Slight age toning at top of paper slip ephemera. A Very Good copy. Text printed on title page: "Articles are listed in order of placement. The making of signatures by various presses at different times and places prevents folio pagination. Credit is given to each press with the exception of the Pynson Printers, who are responsible for the work not otherwise credited." Back colophon: "Completing Volume IV, of a book collectors' quarterly founded in New York in 1928. The four parts of this volume were distributed to twenty-five hundred book lovers in all parts of the world, Part Sixteen in March, 1934." The Colophon was a limited-edition, quarterly periodical that was published from 1929-1950. The periodical was established by Elmer Adler (1884-1962), the founder of Pynson Printers in New York City. Each quarterly contains a collection of "signatures" written and printed by different printers or printing presses. Most of these "signatures" are articles, but a few take the form of artwork and other non-written works. The articles cover a diverse range of topics, but all relate in some way to printing, publishing, art, and literature. The Colophon was especially unique in featuring a variety of paper, typography, and printing styles due to the different contributors. The following are the features in this issue: "Johnsonian Bibliography 1750-1765" by R. W. Chapman, Hawthorn House, Windham, Conn., "A Chronological Grouping of Some of Emily Dickinson's Poems" by George F. Whicher, "Incense and Praise, and Whim, and Glory: Real People in Poetry" by Earle F. Walbridge, Harbor Press, New York, "The Aldine Edition of British Poets" by Henry N. Arnold, The Marchbanks Press, New York, "Woodcut: Piete" by Louis Hechenbleikner, "The First Edition of the Encyclopoedia Britannica" by Rudolph Gjelness, Typography by Powgen Press under the direction of Robert Josephy, Facsimile by Offset Printing Plate Co., "Anthologies of American Literature Before 1861" by Fred Lewis Pattee, Printype Incorporated, New York, "Imprint Collecting" by J. B. Mussey, Composition by Printing Class of The New School for Social Research, Illustrations by Donald McKay, "A Thoreau Fact-Book" by Arthur Christy, Walpole Printing Office, New Rochelle, N.Y., "Lady Isabel Burton: Author's Wife Extraordinary" by Fairfax Downey, The Southworth Press, Portland, Maine, Drawings by Carl Noell, "An Omnibus of Poets" by Aubrey H. Starke, Lester Douglas at the Printing House of Judd & Detweiler, Washington, D.C., Decorations by Charles Dunn, and "Index Volume IV." "Cover design and colophon page [by] Louis Bouche." "Binding of Four Parts of Volume IV by George McKibbin & Son.". Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

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