Signed by Francis X. Harrigan. Bound in brown cloth over boards with gilt-stamped titling on the front and spine. Twain delivered this speech to a printer's dinner meeting at Delmonico's in New York City on January 18, 1886. Frontispiece is facsimile 1940 U.S. commemorative stamp bearing likeness of Samuel L. Clemens. Another illustration shows a compositor at work.
Title page is printed in red and black.
Walsdorf, John J., ed. Printers on Morris . Beaverton, OR, Beaverdam Press, 1981. A total of 326 copies have been printed directly from type. 300 copies on Strathmore Text and 26 special copies on Hosho.