Record 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 characters : together with an elucidation of every subject connected with the art by J. Johnson, printer | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution

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 characters : together with an elucidation of every subject connected with the art by J. Johnson, printer

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Notes:: Bigmore & Wyman describe as issued in 4 formats, 32mo, 16mo, 8vo and royal 8vo; Lowndes describes as issued simultaneously in 3 formats: 12mo, 8vo (large paper), and 4to (largest paper, called "Roxburghe copies"); Colophon: J. Johnson, typ. Apollo Press, Brook Street, Holborn, London; Includes indexes; On spine: "Large Paper. / [rule] / Johnson's Typographia, / In Two Volumes / Vol. I [or II] / Price Three Pounds"; Title and text within decorative border; Volume 1: [13], ii-xii, 610, [10] pages; volume 2: [7], ii-ii-iv,143, [1], *1-*46, 191-588, [dagger]1-[dagger] 56, [645]-663, [17] pages; Wood engravings: added illustrated title pages, frontispieces (ports.), 1 plate, and text illustrations; Bigmore, E.C. Bibliography of printing, volume 1, 371; Lowndes, W.T. Bibliographer's manual of English literature (1871 edition), volume 3, part 5, page 1215; SCDIRB copy (39088015715071, 39088015715113) has armorial bookplate of Johannis Evans; SCDIRB copy has booklabel: From the Linotype Library; SCDIRB copy quarter bound in paper boards and cloth, printed paper spine label

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