BLADES, WILLIAM.

The Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges.

With a memoir of the author, and list of his works. Chicago, A. C. McClurg and Company, 1891. 4to. XXVI+(2)+118 p. With numerous illustr. in the text + 2 fold. plates. Orig. red pictorial cloth. Top edge gilt, other uncut. The story of printing presented as a parallel to the books of the Pentateuch. The best brief outline of the history of printing. This book was the first comprehensive typographical primer in the English language on the subject and it may still be considered valuable to the student of historical typography. As the title suggests, the history of the art of printing is traced in its various stages as the great Pentateuch traced the origin and wanderings of the chosen people.

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