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.