Search Results: the origin of printing in two by bowyer william

HardPress Publishing, 2012-08-01. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New. This book, first published in 1774, consists of a reissue of two early eighteenth-century essays on the origin of printing, and disputing the traditional account that Gutenberg introduced it to Europe and Caxton to England. Appendices describe progress in printing Greek and Hebrew, and the first printed polyglot Bibles.

Legare Street Press, 2021-09-10. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Hardback. New.

Legare Street Press. hardcover. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Paperback / softback. New.

London: W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1774. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Octavo. xvi, 144, [2 (adverts)] pp. First edition. In 19th century half speckled calf with corners and marbled papers over boards. Joints are moderately rubbed but sound; light shelfwear; a very few instances of early ink corrections or brief annotations in addition to Bowyer's name being added in ink to the title page in an early hand; additionally, a 20th word in green ink on p. 1; one leaf (M4) has been excised, likely at the time of printing as the text is complete and the pagination is correct, matching catalogued and digitized copies. In content, this work comprises an abridged reprinting of Conyer Middleton's Dissertation (1734-5) correctly arguing that contrary to popular opinion William Caxton was the first printer in England. The second essay is an English translation of Gerard Meerman's Origines Typographicase in which the Dutch collector argues that the first printing was done by Laurentius in Harleim, improved… Read More