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OLD REAM WRAPPERS, AN ESSAY ON EARLY REAM WRAPPERS OF ANTIQUARIAN INTEREST.
Voorn, Henk
Taylor A8. One of 375 numbered copies. This was by far the largest Bird & Bull edition to date. It took Mr. Morris thirty weeks just to make the paper used for it. The book was the result of a trip the Morrises took to Europe in 1967. The separately issued envelope containing two reproductions of a ream wrapper is not present.
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TYPOGRAPHICAL ANTIQUITIES OR THE HISTORY OF PRINTING IN E...
by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
Enlarged reprint of 1785-90 edition. (Besterman 5119, 5120; Windle & Pippin A15; Bigmore & Wyman I,7; Jackson no. 26; Lowndes I, 36-7 - "an invaluable work, which is much to be regretted has not been completed for want of sufficient encouragement"). A bio-bibliography of 111 English printers, from Caxton to the middle of the Elizabethan age (c. 1590). This edition enlarged and illustrated from the earlier edition by Joseph Ames and William Herbert. Frontispiece in each volume. Dedication to the Marquis of Bute. "Advertisement" by Dibdin. List of subscribers headed by H.M. King George III. Preface by Ames with memoirs of his life by Richard Gough. Also includes preface by Herbert with a memoir of his life. Includes history of early engraving and printing, Discusses the lives and works of William Caxton and many other early English printers. Each volume includes numerous copper-engraved and woodcut illustrations and facsimiles. A great reference work for the history of English printing. Marbled edges, pastedowns and endpapers. Boards bumped and scuffed, some detached. Parts of spine chipping. Bookplates on front pastedowns and free endpapers. Some fading and foxing in text.
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