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The origin of printing In two essays: I. The substance of Dr. Middleton's dissertation on the origin of printing in England. II. Mr. Meerman's account of the first invention of the art. An appendix is annexed, 1. On the first-printed Greek books. 2. On the first-printed Hebrew books, with observations on some modern editions; and a collation, from Walton's polyglott, of a remarkable passage, as printed in Kings and Chronicles. 3. On the early polyglotts
Dissertation concerning the origin of printing in England. Abridgments
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- Eighteenth century collections online
- Origines typographicae. English. Abridgments
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- London : Printed for W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, at Cicero's Head, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, MDCCLXXIV. [1774]
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- xvi,144,[2],vii,[1],145-183,[1]p. ; 8⁰
- Edited by William Bowyer and John Nichols.
- Consists of abridgments of Middleton's 'Dissertation concerning the origin of printed in England' and Meerman's 'Origines typographicae'.
- A reissue of the 1774 edition, with an advertisement leaf following p. 144, additional appendices Nos. IV,V, and VI, and a Postscript.
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- English Short Title Catalog, N60471.