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Christian Gottlob Taubel, Vienna. 1805. First Edition, 2 vols., 4to, [ii],vi,152; [ii],vi,88,40,[148],[4]pp., engraved frontispieces, 8 engraved plates, 27 folding tables, wide-margin copy, some light worming to inner margins (not effecting text), orig. marbled paper wrappers, unopened, uncut, a very nice set. “Arranged as a dictionary, defining printing terms and containing much practical matter. A collection of diagrams and folding sheets shows presses and tools, type-founding utensils and moulds, type-specimens, case-lay, and imposition. Several poems in praise of printing precede a form of ceremony for reception of a new member of a printers’ guild.”—A List of Printers’ Manuals to 1850. JPHS, No. 4, 1968. Without the third volume which was published four years later in 1809. Bigmore & Wyman, III, p.2. |
