Typographia, Or The Printers' Instructor: Including An Account of the Origin Of Printing, with Biographical Notices of the Printers of England, from Caxton to the close of the Sixteenth Century: A Series of Ancient and Modern Alphabets, and Domesday Chara

2 Volumes. 8vo. 4 p.l., xii, 610, [10]; 2 p.l., iv, 663, [17]. 2 wood-engraved titles by J.Thompson, 3 wood-engraved plates. numerous wood-engraved text illus. & vignettes (incl. portraits of printers, printer's devices). each page of text within border of typographical ornaments. untrimmed in new quarter cloth, preserving original endpapers & printed spine labels. First Edition. 'Of the few standard works on the art of printing in the English language, this is perhaps the most familiar.[The first volume contains] a table of the introduction of the art into the different countries.after which comes the 'introduction and progess of the art in Great Britain', with a list of the productions of the first printers up to 1599.The second volume may be described as practical, in contradistinction to the first, which is historical. It gives a description of types, directions for composing, for press, and warehouse work, &c. It is particularly rich in foreign alphabets, a feature which has gained of it great estimation.it has long since become, and deservedly, a printer's classic.' (Bigmore & Wyman) Bigmore & Wyman I pp. 371-72.…