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A trilogy on printing history / Isaac Disraeli.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1654 v.1-3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Disraeli, Isaac, 1766-1848, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492.
- Caxton, William.
- Printing--History--Origin and antecedents.
- Printing.
- Libraries--History.
- Libraries.
- Freedom of the press--Great Britain.
- Freedom of the press.
- Printing--Origin and antecedents.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- History.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes ; 17 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cincinnati, Ohio : The Stratford Press, 1942.
- Summary:
- Describes the features, mechanics, and history of printing production and dissemination in England.
- Contents:
- Volume 1. The invention of printing
- volume 2. The first English printer
- volume 3. The war against books.
- Notes:
- Issued in case; title from case; each volume has special title page.
- Selections from The amenities of literature by Disraeli. cf. Foreword.
- "Foreword" signed: Lloyd Emerson Siberell.
- "160 copies have been printed and the type distributed."
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy in case as issued.
- OCLC:
- 1277734
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