MEERMAN, Gerard (1722-71). Origines Typographicae . The Hague: Jacob van Karnebeek for Nicolaus van Daalen, Guillaume-François De Bure [Paris] and Thomas Wilcox [London], August 1762-April 1765. Two volumes in one, 4° (259 x 206mm). Two engraved portraits, 10 engraved facsimile plates [the first double-page] of early printing and xylography, double-page letterpress genealogical table of the Coster family. Contemporary Dutch vellum, spine lettered in manuscript, edges sprinkled red (vellum bowing, light soiling).
MEERMAN, Gerard (1722-71). Origines Typographicae . The Hague: Jacob van Karnebeek for Nicolaus van Daalen, Guillaume-François De Bure [Paris] and Thomas Wilcox [London], August 1762-April 1765. Two volumes in one, 4° (259 x 206mm). Two engraved portraits, 10 engraved facsimile plates [the first double-page] of early printing and xylography, double-page letterpress genealogical table of the Coster family. Contemporary Dutch vellum, spine lettered in manuscript, edges sprinkled red (vellum bowing, light soiling). FIRST EDITION of the most famous 18th-century monograph on the history of printing, written by an industrious and well-travelled jurist, Holland's greatest and most learned early bibliophile. Apart from chapters on putative early printing at Haarlem, there are extensive discussions, descriptions and reproductions of xylography, early Chinese printing, proto-typography, early documents relating to typography, what is now known as the Gutenberg Bible, the 36-line Bible, the Mentelin Bible, etc., as well as early Italian printing. The work went through several translations and editions. Bigmore and Wyman II, 32.
MEERMAN, Gerard (1722-71). Origines Typographicae . The Hague: Jacob van Karnebeek for Nicolaus van Daalen, Guillaume-François De Bure [Paris] and Thomas Wilcox [London], August 1762-April 1765. Two volumes in one, 4° (259 x 206mm). Two engraved portraits, 10 engraved facsimile plates [the first double-page] of early printing and xylography, double-page letterpress genealogical table of the Coster family. Contemporary Dutch vellum, spine lettered in manuscript, edges sprinkled red (vellum bowing, light soiling).
MEERMAN, Gerard (1722-71). Origines Typographicae . The Hague: Jacob van Karnebeek for Nicolaus van Daalen, Guillaume-François De Bure [Paris] and Thomas Wilcox [London], August 1762-April 1765. Two volumes in one, 4° (259 x 206mm). Two engraved portraits, 10 engraved facsimile plates [the first double-page] of early printing and xylography, double-page letterpress genealogical table of the Coster family. Contemporary Dutch vellum, spine lettered in manuscript, edges sprinkled red (vellum bowing, light soiling). FIRST EDITION of the most famous 18th-century monograph on the history of printing, written by an industrious and well-travelled jurist, Holland's greatest and most learned early bibliophile. Apart from chapters on putative early printing at Haarlem, there are extensive discussions, descriptions and reproductions of xylography, early Chinese printing, proto-typography, early documents relating to typography, what is now known as the Gutenberg Bible, the 36-line Bible, the Mentelin Bible, etc., as well as early Italian printing. The work went through several translations and editions. Bigmore and Wyman II, 32.
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