Wakeman, Geoffrey.

A Leaf History of British Printing From 1610 to 1774.

Oxford Plough Press 1986 Folio. (6) pp., followed by ten annotated folders containing type and paper specimens. One of 110 copies. Intended to demonstrate some of the most important characteristics of nearly two hundred years of printing in England and Scotland. Leaves include John Foxe's Book of Martyrs (1610), a third edition of Saint Bernard His Meditations printed by Elizabeth Allde (1631), and Quintilian's De Insitutione Oratoria (1663) tipped-in with two type slugs. In addition to highlighting the improvements in English commercial printing's inkwork and presswork, the text also deals with the shift from the woodcut to the more advanced copper engraving technique and the art of papermaking. Unbound, as issued, and housed in a tan linen clamshell box with gilt green leather spine label. Very fine. Publication announcement laid in.

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