The History of the Catnach Press, at Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Alnwick and Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, in Northumberland, and Seven Dials, London

by Charles Hindley

$150 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition · Signed

London: Charles Hindley The Younger , 1886. First edition, 1/250 large paper copies this #136 signed by the author. Small 4to. xlii, 308 pp. Illustrated from wood engravings, from the press's publications, plates, vignettes, extra illustrated title page. James Catnach 1792-1841 took over his father's failing business, printing in Newcastle and London, and built it into a successful enterprise, specializing in children's chapbooks, ballad poetry,

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