Books in America's past
Subtitle: essays honoring Rudolph H. Gjelsness.
Contributors: Gjelsness, Rudolph Hjalmar, 1894-1968.; University of Virginia. Bibliographical Society.
Publisher: Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia [by] University Press of Virginia
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Library science -- United States.; Printing -- United States -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: David Hall's bookshop and its British sources of supply [by] R.D. Harlan.; title: The libraries of nineteenth-century college societies [by] R. Rouse.; title: French-language printing in the United States. 1711-1825 [by] S.J. Marino.; title: Children's books following the Civil War [by] R.L. Darling.; title: Periodical publishing in the Michigan Territory [by] W.J. Bonk.; title: Bernard Dornin, America's first Catholic bookseller [by] D. Kaser.; title: The first printing press in Canada, 1751-1800 [by] O.B. Bishop.; title: Early handling of books at the University of Michigan [by] R.E. Bidlack.; title: James Rivington, Tory, printer [by] L. Hewlett.; title: The recurring emergence of American paperbacks [by] F.L. Schick.; title: Engravings in American magazines, 1741-1810 [by] B.M. Lewis.; title: Antislavery publishing in Michigan [by] J.E. Kephart.; title: The library world of Norton's Literary gazette [by] D.W. Krummel.