[MACKELLAR, SMITHS AND JORDAN FOUNDRY] 1796 - 1896, One Hundred Years: MacKellar, Smiths and Jordan Foundry. Philadelphia, 1896. Slim folio, approx 11 3/4 x 15 inches, 95pp, a history of the firm, maroon printed half-tone illustrations within text, on coated stock, title-page polychromatic, bound in publisher's cream cloth, pictorially stamped in brown and gilt, decorative endpapers; somewhat shaken, spine ends chipped with loss, uneven toning, soiling and general wear to covers, chips to edges of endpapers, pages clean, a good copy. With detailed and illustrated desciptions of the typefounding process.
[MACKELLAR, SMITHS AND JORDAN FOUNDRY] 1796 - 1896, One Hundred Years: MacKellar, Smiths and Jordan Foundry. Philadelphia, 1896. Slim folio, approx 11 3/4 x 15 inches, 95pp, a history of the firm, maroon printed half-tone illustrations within text, on coated stock, title-page polychromatic, bound in publisher's cream cloth, pictorially stamped in brown and gilt, decorative endpapers; somewhat shaken, spine ends chipped with loss, uneven toning, soiling and general wear to covers, chips to edges of endpapers, pages clean, a good copy. With detailed and illustrated desciptions of the typefounding process.
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