INVENTORY #161822
Flying Leaves and One-Sheets: Pennsylvania German Broadsides, Fraktur, and Their Printers
EARNEST, Russell & Corinne; ROSENBERRY, Edward L.
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$50.00 CAD
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Explores 18th- and 19th-century Pennsylvania German single-sheet posters (broadsides) and illuminated manuscripts in fraktur. Covers works produced from the mid-1750s through 1876. Illustrations of advertisements, bookplates, eulogies, family registers, recipes, typographical specimen sheets, Biblical stories, prayers, songs, baptism certificates, and much more.
Publication Info
- Publisher: Oak Knoll Books
- Edition: n/a
- Date Published: 2005
- Place Published: New Castle, Del.
- ISBN: 9781584561453
Details
- Condition: Fine
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: Yes
- Jacket Condition: Very good +
- Details:
xiv, 337 p. 29 cm. 134 illustrations of broadsides. Red cloth in dustjacket. Tear in top of jacket's rear panel near spine.