[Rarebooks] FS: Dibdin's 4 vol. Illustrated History of Printing in Great Britain. 1810-19

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(BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS) Dibdin, Thomas Frognall.TYPOGRAPHICAL ANTIQUITIES: OR THE HISTORY OF PRINTING IN ENGLAND SCOTLAND ANDIRELAND: Containing Memoirs of Our Ancient Printers, and a Register of theBooks Printed by Them. Begun by the late Joseph Ames. Considerably Augmented byWilliam Herbert; and Now Greatly Enlarged, with Copious Notes, and Illustratedwith Appropriate Engravings... London: Printed for William Miller by WilliamSavage [later volumes published by John Murray and by Longman, Hurst, Rees,Orme and Brown]. 1810-1819. Lg. 4to. 4 vols. Illustrated with numerous copperengraved plates, portraits and facsimiles, as well as ext engravings andwoodcuts. Finely bound in 20th century 1/2 brown morocco, gilt, over marbled boards (minor chips to thetop of 2 spines). T.e.g. Occasional light foxing. Frontispiece portrait of Vol.IV with an old water stain at fore-margin.    $1,000.00(trade discount allowed)
 
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