Order Nr. 2136 INTRODUCTION OF THE ART OF PRINTING INTO SCOTLAND. Robert Dickson.
INTRODUCTION OF THE ART OF PRINTING INTO SCOTLAND
INTRODUCTION OF THE ART OF PRINTING INTO SCOTLAND
INTRODUCTION OF THE ART OF PRINTING INTO SCOTLAND
INTRODUCTION OF THE ART OF PRINTING INTO SCOTLAND
INTRODUCTION OF THE ART OF PRINTING INTO SCOTLAND
One of 50 Large Paper Copies

INTRODUCTION OF THE ART OF PRINTING INTO SCOTLAND.

  • Aberdeen: J. and J.P. Edmond and Spark, 1885.
  • small 4to.
  • original blue polished cloth, beveled edges, top edge cut, others uncut.
  • xvi, 98 pages.

Price: $150.00  other currencies

Order Nr. 2136

First edition limited to 550 copies, of which this is one of 50 numbered large paper copies printed on better paper. (6729 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 440). Covers soiled and rubbed with spotting at top of spine. Some yellowing of front endpaper. Overall a lovely copy of this scarce book.

Title-vignette and numerous full-page facsimiles with 27 illustrations and scholarly studies on Chepman, Myllar, the Aberdeen Breviary, etc. The first book on the subject, and a standard reference for early Scottish printing. The author credits Mons. A. Claudin of Paris for helping bring to light vast amounts of information between the years 1874-1884. This book is lacking as an entry in the instrumental A Bibliography of Printing (Bigmore & Wyman, 1880), missing it by only five years.