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Genre/Form: | Bibliographies Early works Early works to 1800 |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Watson, James, -1722. History of the art of printing. London : Gregg Press, 1965 (OCoLC)578666112 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James Watson; John Spotiswood; Jean de La Caille |
OCLC Number: | 771721 |
Notes: | Reprint of the 1713 ed., Edinburgh, printed by J. Watson, sold at his shop. |
Description: | 24, xlviii, 64 pages : illustrations (some folded) ; 19 cm. |
Contents: | The publisher's preface to the printers in Scotland [signed James Watson]--Specimen of types in the printing-house of James Watson.--The history of the invention and progress of the mysterious art of printing, &c. [a translation of J. de La Caille's Histoire de l'imprimerie et de la librairie, livre 1, by J. Spotiswood]--A contemplation upon the mystery of man's regeneration, in allusion to the mystery of printing [a poem]. |
Series Title: | English bibliographical sources., Series 3,, Printers' manuals ;, no. 1. |
Other Titles: | James Watson : the history of the art of printing 1713. |
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