Flying Leaves and One-sheets - Russell D. Earnest, Corinne P. Earnest
Pennsylvania German broadsides, Fraktur, and their printers
KORTE INHOUD
Early American printers amplified messages by setting them in type, adding decorative borders and other ornamental devices, and printing them as single sheets called broadsides. Flying Leaves and One-Sheets explores eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Pennsylvania German broadsides, including examples of fraktur (illuminated sheets). For almost two centuries, German- and English-language broadsides circulated among Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants throughout Pennsylvania, western Maryland, the Shenandoah Valley, Ohio, and beyond. This book provides a sampling of broadsides made for the Pennsylvania German subculture, often referred to as "Pennsylvania Dutch." The 134 illustrations in Flying Leaves and One-Sheets demonstrate the typographical skills of German-language printers in North America from the mid 1750s to 1876. Selected for graphic appeal, range of subject matter, and historic interest, these broadsides show the attitudes and literary appetites of Pennsylvania Germans as expressed in printed...
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2005Uitgever: Oak Knoll Press337 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1584561459ISBN-13: 9781584561453Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's red cloth hardback, gilt lettering spine, pictorial dustjacket, large 4to: 338pp., introductory chapters, catalogue of 134 broadsides / Einblattdrucke page-large depicted and described in length on the opposite page, acknowledgements, notes & references, general bibliography, index. Very fine copy - as new., New Castle [Del], Oak Knoll Press. 2005 [Auteur: CORINE EARNEST/EARNEST, RUSSELL/EDWARD L. ROSENBERRY [EDS.].] [Jaar: 2005] [Titel: Flying Leaves and One-Sheets. Pennsylvania Germa...
