Johnson, John

Typographia, or the Printers' 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 [in 2 volumes]

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1824 First Edition Full-Leather 16mo. (cover measurements: 128 mm x 90 mm), 2 volumes, pp. [viii], xii, 610, [10]; [vi], iv, 663, [1], ]16]; frontispiece portraits of Caxton and Johnson, extra-engraved title-pages, and engraved dedication to the Earl Spencer and the Members of the Roxburghe Club, extra port. of Caxton in Vol. I., numerous text illustrations, facsimiles and type specimens. Late 19th-century full, dark green morocco, combed marble endpapers and edges, 6 faux raised bands. Very good, clean, crisp copies. Still fresh, curious and instructive, it was printed in four sizes: 32mo, 16mo, 8vo and royal 8vo. B & W I.371-3.

• CAD 300.00 > other currencies
• ordernr.: 1902

• bookseller: Hugh Anson-Cartwright (CANADA)