Karen Nipps. Lydia Bailey: A Checklist of Her Imprints. University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University for the Bibliographical Society of America in association with the Houghton Library, Harvard University, and the Library Company of Philadelphia, 2013. xiii + 310 p. $79.95 (ISBN: 978-0-271-05571-8).

Abstract

From a review of the earlier published scholarship in the field of printing history, an inquiring reader would surmise that women were not a significant part of commercial letterpress printing during the handpress period. Scholarship in the last 20 years, however, has revealed that this is not the case. In fact, many recent studies document women’s high degree of involvement from the earliest days of printing in the Western world.

Lydia Bailey: A Checklist of Her Imprints is an important addition to the study of the history of the book and of women’s roles in letterpress printing. It is a . . .