PRINTING PATENTS, ABRIDGEMENTS OF PATENT SPECIFICATIONS RELATING TO PRINTING, 1617-1857. FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1859 AND NOW REPRINTED WITH A PREFATORY NOTE BY JAMES HARRISON

  • cloth
  • London: Printing Historical Society, 1969
London: Printing Historical Society, 1969. cloth. Printing. 8vo. cloth. xxi, 631, (ii), 311-369, xxv-xxvii pages. Reprints of the 1859 and 1878 editions with additional material. With a prefatory note by James Harrison. A very important and useful work in the study of early printing processes. The 1859 edition contains Samuel Pope's 1731 essay on marbling.

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PRINTING PATENTS, ABRIDGEMENTS OF PATENT SPECIFICATIONS RELATING TO PRINTING, 1617-1857. FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1859 AND NOW REPRINTED WITH A PREFATORY NOTE BY JAMES HARRISON

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cloth

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Printing Historical Society: London

Date

1969


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