The Pentateuch of Printing, with a Chapter on Judges. With a Memoir of the Author and a List of his Works, by Talbot R. Reed. LARGE PAPER 'PENTATEUCH'. 100 COPIES WERE PRINTED.

Elliot Stock, 1891

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Year of publication

1891

Author

Blades William

Publishers

Elliot Stock

Keyword

mstock, bibliography, typography, printing, william blades, pentateuch, william blades, bibliography, printing, typography, pentateuch, printing, chapter, judges

Languages

English

Description

4to., First Edition, LARGE PAPER, with a frontispiece, decorative and printed titles, and numerous plates (a number folding) and illustrations in the text; publisher's binding of boards, calf back gilt, gilt top, covers lightly rubbed and age-marked else a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER. Sold from an institution with its stamps and accession data. 'The best brief outline of the history of printing. This was the first comprehensiove primer in the English language on the subject and it may still be considered invaluable to the student of historical typography. As the title suggests, the history of the chosen art is traced in its various stages as the great Pentateuch traced the origin and wanderings of the chosen people.'. W. Turner Berry, 1924