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The Old-Time Printer, Mark Twain, Francis Xavier Harrigan, Don Brady, Special Collections, Fleet Library
The Old-Time Printer, Mark Twain, Francis Xavier Harrigan, Don Brady, Special Collections, Fleet Library
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vi, 18 pages : illustrations ; 65 mm (6.4 x 5 cm). "This book was handset in 6 pt. Bulmer with "Notes" set in 6 pt. Baskerville. Printed by F.X. Harrigan at the Xavier Press in a limited edition of 175 copies. Bound by Don Brady."--colophon. Foreword by the printer. Text is copy of an address Twain delivered in New York City to commemorate Benjamin Franklin's birthday in 1886. Frontispiece is a mounted reproduction of a US postage stamp which included a portrait of Mark Twain. Ten cent stamp originally issued 1940. Title page printed in black and red. Bound …