Vintage book Printing Ink 1926 Frank B Wiborg signed

This is a vintage book, Printing Ink, A history with a treatise on Modern Methods of Manufacture and use, 1926 by  Frank B Wiborg. It is signed by the author Frank Wiborg on the first page. It is a first edition, printed in 1926. The dust jacket does have tears and the back of it has come away. The binding is still all in tact and there is some yellowing to the pages.  Four years after publishing, Wiborg died in 1930 in New York. Please refer to the photographs.

He was born on April 30, 1855 to Henry Paulinus Wiborg, a Norwegian immigrant, and Susan Isidora Bestow.^[2] He attended the Chickering Scientific and Classical Institute, and graduated in 1874. He worked for Levi Addison Ault to pay his way through school.^[3]

He married Adeline Moulton Sherman (1859-1917), the daughter of Hoyt Sherman in 1882. Together they had three daughters: Mary Hoyt Wiborg, Sara Sherman Wiborg, and Olga Wiborg (1890-1937). Olga Wiborg married Sidney Webster Fish, the son of Stuyvesant Fish on September 18, 1915 in St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Easthampton, New York.^[4] On December 30, 1915 Sara married Gerald Murphy.^[5] He was later the Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Labor.^[6]

He died of pneumonia at his home at 756 Park Avenue in New York City on May 12, 1930.^[7][8]

• The Travels of an Unofficial Attaché (Privately printed, 1904)
• A Commercial Traveller in South America (New York: McClure, Phillips & Co. 1905)
• Printing Ink: A History with a Treatise on Modern Methods of Manufacture and Use (New York and London: Harper, 1926)