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On the Dedications of American Churches: An Enquiry into the Naming of Churches in the United States some Account of English Dedications and Suggestions for future Dedications in the American Church. Compiled by Two Laymen of the Diocese of Rhode Island

1891rif. 071993Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press 1891. Hardcover. Very Good. 10" x 7.5" x 1. Rebacked this copy is bound in half brown leather and brown cloth boards. Gilt trims the seams along the cover. Hubbed spine bears four raised bands with gilt lettering and ornamentation. Deckled foredge and foot. Teal endpapers. Leaves are a laid cotton rag paper. Title page bears small black and white engraving also present on the last page. Two large fold-out data tables are present in beautiful condition printed on vellum. Other printed data tables throughout. Includes seven appendices. x 154 pp. CONDITION: Very good. Cover shows wear and spine repair is solid. Reinforced inner hinges with a dark teal publisher's cloth. Leaves have lightly toned with light foxing throughout. Text is very bold and bright. Occasional small tears on page edges. Unmarked except for previous owner's name written within the front endpapers and notation about the book's contents in pencil on a front flyleaf. A solid handsome copy. Full refund if not satisfied. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Daniel Berkeley Updike 1860-1941 was an American printer and historian of typography. In 1880 he joined the publishers Houghton Mifflin & Company of Boston as an errand boy. He worked for the firm's Riverside Press and trained as a printer but soon moved to typographic design. In 1896 he founded the Merrymount Press. . Updike was greatly interested in the history of printing types and in 1922 published Printing Types: Their History Forms and Use. An extensively revised second edition was published in 1937. He was involved in the Anglo-American 'Typographical Renaissance' of the time together with Frederic Goudy Stanley Morison Bruce Rogers and Theodore Low De Vinne." Wikipedia. Printed at the Riverside Press hardcover

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