Swifts
Subtitle: a nineteenth-century printing hall of fame.
Contributors: Oat City Press.
Publisher: Oat City Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: [East Providence, R.I.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 14
Subjects: Printers -- United States.; Typesetting -- United States -- History.; Printing -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Broadsides.
Notes: Subtitle continues: Being an account of the prowess at case, complete with portraits and biographies, of 12 compositors, including documentation, discussion, and tabulation of their several tournaments, as well as copious data concerning the history and techniques of this ancient art.

"Walker Rumble wrote the text"--Colophon.

Issued in black portfolio without lettering.

Printed in red and black on paper of various colors.

Includes title sheet, colophon and broadside for each of 12 printers containing biographical information and portrait; diagram of type cases on title sheet and cut of printing utensil (type stick?) on colophon sheet.

"This collection is hand-set in 14-point Monotype Bembo 270 with Bodoni and Franklin Gothic titling. It was printed ... on a Vandercook 317 letterpress. The paper is Fabriano Ingres Heavyweight"--Colophon.
Table of contents: value: George Graham; value: W.H. Van Bibber; value: Joseph Farquhar; value: Myles Johnson; value: William C. Clarke; value: William C. Barnes; value: Joseph W. McCann; value: Ira Somers; value: George Arensberg; value: William H. Foster; value: Peter Thienes; value: Alexander Duguid.