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Elmer Adler (Editor) et al : The Colophon: A Book Collectors' Quarterly. Part Fourteen

Pynson Printers, Incorporated, New York, 1933

Limited Edition. One of 2500 copies. Original publisher's beige paper-covered boards with a pink, black, blue, and white illustration on front cover of a man reading a book and holding a glass of wine and a woman playing a guitar or similar string instrument. The man wears ornate robes and a turban while the woman wears a similarly patterned dress. Beige lettering on black and blue 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 ephemera laid in, the Colophon Crier for Part Fourteen and a paper announcement for a show of colophon marks and devices by the Pynson Printers. 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. A Very Good copy. Text printed on Table of Contents: "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: "A Book Collectors' Quarterly made for distribution among Twenty-five hundred lovers of books, June MCM XXX III." 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: "On Collecting Scott" by William C. Van Antwerp, The Windsor Press, San Francisco, "Harriet Martineau, Deaf Blue-Stocking" by Earnest Elmo Calkins, "The Mather Collection at Cleveland" by Thomas J. Holmes" by Horace Carr, Cleveland, "Aquatint: Bookshop" by Earl Horter, George H. Esquirell, Philadelphia, "The Unicorn in Early Prints and Printed Books" by A. F. Johnson, The Curwen Press, London, England, "Old Leather and Burnished Gold" by Alfred Hopkins, Offset Printing Plate Co., New York, under the direction of Robert S. Josephy, Designs by Carlotta Petrina, "Blunt's Coast Pilot" by Alfred Stanford, The Harbor Press, New York, Drawings by Helen O' Connor Harter, "The hoover Translation of Agricola's De Re Metallica" by William R. Castle, Jr. "Cover and colophon page by Marie A. Lawson.". Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

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