Looney, Robert F. [editor]. Philadelphia Printmaking: American Prints Before 1860

Looney, Robert F. [editor]. Philadelphia Printmaking: American Prints Before 1860; A Conference held April 5,6,7, 1973; The Free Library of Philadelphia, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, The Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of art. West Chester, Pennsylvania: The Tinicum Press, 1977. First Edition.

"Mcmlxxvi" on title page yet "1977" on copyright. Tall blue cloth, 8 x 11 inches, former owner's names in marker on front paste-down, (xvi.), 175 clean pp., illustrated. Set in the Sabon and Palatino types and printed on Curtis Colophon at The Tinicum Press, West Chester, Pennsylvania. Designed by John Anderson and Denis Williamson.  [4081]

Contains: The First Philadelphia Printsellers, by Sinclair H. Hitchings; American Drawing Books, by Peter C. Marzio; Mathew Clark's Charts, by Beatrice B. Garvan; The Birth of Political Caricature, by E. P. Richardson; William Charles and His War of 1812 Caricatures, by Lorraine Dwelling Lanmon; Liveliness: A Quality in Prints of Philadelphia, by Martin P. Snyder; Thomas Doughty, Printmaker, by Robert F. Looney; John Plumbe and the 'Plumbeotype,' by Alan Fern..