Typographical Antiquities or The History of Printing in England, Scotland, and Ireland. In Four Volumes.
Hildesheim: George Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1969. Hardbound. Octavos, brown cloth with gold lettering and gold lettering on the spine against black panels, frontispiece portrait, xx, 391 pp., b/w illustrations, list of authors, index + frontispiece portrait, vi, 616 pp., b/w illustrations, index + frontispiece portrait, iv, 617 pp., index + frontispiece portrait, iv, 623 pp., b/w illustrations, index. Very Good. Item #108995
Anglistica & Americana: A Series of Reprints Selected by Bernhard Fabian, Edgar Mertner, Karl Schneider, and Marvin Spevack 19. Edited by Thomas Frognall Dibdi (1810-1819). A facsimle reprint of the Third Editon, "Typographical antiquities; or The History of Printing in England Scotland and Ireland: containing memoirs of our ancient printers, and a register of the books printed by them: Begun by the late Joseph Ames, F.R. & A.SS. Considerably augmented by William Herbert, of Chestnut, Herts; And now greatly enlarged, with copious notes, and illustrated with appropriate engravings; Comprehending the history of English literature, and a view of the progress of the art of engraving, in Great Britain; by the Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin." Preface by Dibdin.
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