Order Nr. 30563 TYPOGRAPHIA, OR THE PRINTER'S INSTRUCTOR INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OF PRINTING. With Biographical Notices of the Printers of England, from Caxton to the Close of the Sixteenth Century: a Series of Ancient and Modern Alphabets, John Johnson.

TYPOGRAPHIA, OR THE PRINTER'S INSTRUCTOR INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OF PRINTING. With Biographical Notices of the Printers of England, from Caxton to the Close of the Sixteenth Century: a Series of Ancient and Modern Alphabets,

Two volumes.

  • London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1824.
  • thick 8vo.
  • original quarter green cloth, paper spine labels.
  • (xiv),xii,610,(10); (iv),iv,664,(16) pages.
  • ISBN: none

Price: $95.00  other currencies

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First edition, one of the larger paper copies measuring 7 inches in height and with this designation printed on the spine labels. (Bigmore & Wyman I,371; Hart no.68). A poor copy. Boards and spines detached on both volumes, but present. Wear to boards and spines, with the later loosely inserted. With attractive frontispiece and title page decorations. One of the most famous of the English printers' manuals. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books.

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