A HISTORY OF THE ART OF PRINTING FROM ITS INVENTION TO ITS WIDE-SPREAD DEVELOPMENT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
- London, England: Bernard Quaritch, 1868.
- folio.
- original cloth, edges uncut
- xvi, 216 pages
Price: $250.00 other currencies
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Second issue with the section on references at the end of the book in the first issue suppressed because of errors (Bigmore & Wyman I, 350). Preface to the second issue, table of contents, errata, appendix. Contains 106 facsimiles in photolithography produced by Day & Son which are the highlight of this book. The text contains numerous errors but the fine color work done in the plates make the book a worthwhile addition to a printing history library. Covers worn, separating at outside joints. Covers separated from text except back inside hinge. Cloth separating from board at lower front fore-edge corner. Back cover stained along fore-edge. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Leaves of text loose. Plates all present but out of sequence. Some spotting in text and on plates.