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Rene François on printing : a seventeenth-century "bluffer's guide".
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Z116 .B5 1982
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Binet, Etienne, 1569-1639.
- Series:
- Footnotes to the history of printing ; 2.
- Footnotes to the history of printing ; 2
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Printing.
- Penn Provenance:
- Traister, Daniel (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 9 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Wellington [N.Z.] : At the Printing Office on the Parade, 1982.
- Notes:
- "... translated, or rather adapted, from Chapter XXXVIII, 'Du fait de l'imprimerie,' of the Essay des merveilles de nature & des plus nobles artifices (10th edition, Paris, 1638), by René François (whose real name was Etienne Binet), preacher to the king."
- "About one hundred copies ... set by hand ... and printed ... as a practical exercise in the History of the Book course in the Department of Librarianship, Victoria University of Wellington."
- OCLC:
- 9898910
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