TYPOGRAPHEUM - Being Essays, Mainly Historical, on Printers and Printing, and Including a Remembrance of a Bookseller, Along With a Personal Narrative, by R. T. RISK.

LIMITED EDITION of 115 copies Published and Printed by R. T. Risk at his Typographeum Bookshop, Francestown, New Hampshire, 1997.

From the Publisher/Author: "Included here is an essay about what it may have been like to be a printer in the 15th Century. It describes how a printing shop was run and what problems had to be dealt with. Two more essays are about Nicolaus Jenson and Aldus Manutius, printers who worked at Venice during the same period. Then there is a chapter of an autobiography, about the author's first years in Francestown. And finally there is a reminiscence of David Low, a bookseller and friend."

Includes essays on printing in the 15th century, including notes on the Venetian printers Nicolaus Jenson and Aldus Manutius. The book also includes autobiographical sections on the author/printer R.T. Rusk, his colleagues, and his shop in Francestown, New Hampshire.

Hardcovers, no dustjacket as issued, 6.5x9.5 inches, 43 pages.

FINE condition, tight, bright, clean and unmarked.