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
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Type of record: Book
Title: 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
Classmark: Large Bibliography G-1.2/HUM
Creator(s): Humphreys, Henry Noel (1810-1879)
Publisher: Bernard Quaritch
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1867
Language: English
Size and medium: xii, 212 p., 100 [i.e. 106] leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/188349
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008706599705181
Description
"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.
Bibliography: p. [209]-212.
Additional description
No. 279 of the 300 numbered copies of the first issue
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