A history of the art of printing : from its invention to its wide-spread development in the middle of the 16th century preceded by a short account of the origin of the alphabet and the successive methods of recording events and multiplying ms. books before the invention of printing / by H. Noel Humphreys ; with one hundred illustrations produced in photo-lithography by Day & Son, Limited, under the direction of the author.
- Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.
- Date:
- 1867
- Books
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Publication/Creation
London : B. Quaritch, 1867.
Physical description
xii, 212 pages, 100, that is, 106 pagesleaves of plates : illustrations, facsimiles (some color) ; 36 cm
Notes
"The first issue consists of 300 numbered copies ... After their dispersion, a small second issue will be made, and the stones are guaranteed then to be destroyed"--Slip tipped in LC copy
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 5 - 10 December 1898. Note: Book label of William Morris Kelmscott House.
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Bibliography: p. [209]-212.
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Location Status Access Closed storesYHD /HUM