GENERAL HISTORY OF PRINTING, FROM ITS FIRST INVENTION IN THE CITY OF MENTZ, TO ITS FIRST PROGRESS AND PROPAGATION THRO THE MOST CELEBRATED CITIES IN EUROPE, PARTICULARLY, ITS INTRODUCTION, RISE AND PROGRESS HERE IN ENGLAND, THE CHARACTER OF THE MOST CELEBRATED PRINTERS.|A

Palmer, S.

Edité par Burt Franklin, New York, 1972

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tall 8vo. cloth. vii, (v), 400 pages. Reprint of the 1733 first edition, second printing. A near fine copy. The first printing occured in 1732. (Bigmore & Wyman II, 110). Bigmore and Wyman state that George Psalmanazar had much to do with the writing of this book and he added a three page biographical note on Samuel Palmer (who had died in 1732) at the end of the book. The historical facts presented by Samuel Palmer are not too accurate; a second volume on the technique of printing, a subject that Palmer could have handled well, was never completed because of the opposition of his fellow printers. Palmer employed a young Benjamin Franklin around 1726 as Franklin noted in his autobiography.

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• Titre: GENERAL HISTORY OF PRINTING, FROM ITS FIRST INVENTION IN THE CITY OF MENTZ, TO ITS FIRST PROGRESS AND PROPAGATION THRO THE MOST CELEBRATED CITIES IN EUROPE, PARTICULARLY, ITS INTRODUCTION, RISE AND PROGRESS HERE IN ENGLAND, THE CHARACTER OF THE MOST CELEBRATED PRINTERS.|A
• Éditeur: Burt Franklin, New York
• Date de parution: 1972
• Reliure: cloth
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