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Benton, Josiah Henry & McRae, John Findlay
John Baskerville Type-Founder and Printer, 1706-1775 [bound with] Two Centuries of Typefounding Annals: Annals of the Letter Foundry Established by william Caslon in Chiswell Street
Publisher: Thoemmes Press/Kinokuniya, Bristol/ Tokyo;
Date of Publication: 1996
Stock Code: 4327
Reprint. Large octavo. 10, 78 pp, [8], pp xiii-xvi, 93, [1]. Illustrated including folding “Specimen to Typefounding”. Book Condition: Near Fine. Publisher's bottle-green cloth with gilt titles to maroon panel to spine; maroon endpapers. Facsimile reprints of 1914 and 1920 originals, bound together as part of the “Pre-Victorian British Typography and Printers' Manuals” series. John Baskerville (1706-75) and William Caslon (1692-1766) were two of the pre-eminent figures in the history of English printing during the eighteenth century. Scarce.
£45.00
John Baskerville Type-Founder and Printer, 1706-1775 [bound with] Two Centuries of Typefounding Annals: Annals of the Letter Foundry Established by william Caslon in Chiswell Street
Date of Publication: 1996
Stock Code: 4327
