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(late of Seven Dials) ballad monger

their biographies printed books and devices

to which is prefixed A Memoir on the public libraries of the antients

an index to the Latin and other forms used on title pages

a manual of American printing including a brief history up to the twentieth century with reproductions of the work of early masters of the craft & an extensive review and elaborate showing of modern commercial typographic specimens

a record and review

a series of facsimiles of all the types used in England during the XVth century with some of those used in the printing of English books abroad;

a brief sketch of the origin rise and progress of the typographic art; with practical directions for conducting every department in an office

from its invention to its wide-spread development in the middle of the 16th century preceded by a short account of the origin of the alphabet and the successive methods of recording events and multiplying ms books before the invention of printing

The block-books or xylographic delineations of scripture history; issued in Holland Flanders and Germany during the fifteenth century exemplified and considered in connexion with the origin of printing To which is added an attempt to elucidate the character of the paper-marks of the period

a chapter in English printing

how Gutenberg changed the world

An historical study based upon documents for the most part hitherto unpublished

with a biography of printers and an account of newspapers

a history of the first fifty years of printing in Salem Massachusetts with some account of the bookshops booksellers bookbinders and the private libraries

being a chronological digest of the most interesting facts illustrative of the history of literature and printing from the earliest period to the present time Interspersed with biographical sketches of eminent booksellers printers type-founders engravers bookbinders and paper makers of all ages and countries but especially of Great Britain With bibliographical and descriptive accounts of their principal productions Including curious particulars of the first introduction of printing into various countries and of the books then printed A history of all the newspapers periodicals and almanacks published in this country Compiled and condensed from Nichols's Literary anecdotes and numerous other authorities

being notes of some of the printed books manuscripts historical documents medals engravings pottery etc collected (1858-1900)

a review of some recent European and American work in typography page decoration & binding