Author: DAVIES, Hugh William
Title: Devices of the Early Printers 1457 - 1560: Their History and Development with a Chapter on Portrait Figures of Printers.
Description: London, Grafton & Co, 1935. A very good, clean, tight copy in original light-blue cloth, spine lettered gilt. No dust-wrapper. xi+707pp. c. 500 pages of illustrations (photographic facsimiles of devices). F.e.p. a little cockled else in excellent condition. Used; Very Good Each facsimile is accompanied by the title and date of the book it came from, with notes on the illustrator and printer etc. Preceded by a history, distinctions between Bale-, Trade- and Merchants'- Marks, discussion of printers and artists. With bibliography, notes and index. Hardback.

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