[Rarebooks] FS: Bowyer's ORIGIN OF PRINTING with APPENDIX and SUPPLEMENT, 1774-81

[Charles Agvent]

[BOWYER, William]. THE ORIGIN OF PRINTING: IN TWO ESSAYS: I. THE 
SUBSTANCE OF DR. MIDDLETON'S DISSERTATION ON THE ORIGIN OF PRINTING IN 
ENGLAND. II. MR. MEERMAN'S ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST INVENTION OF THE ART 
with AN APPENDIX TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THE ORIGIN OF PRINTING 
CONTAINING THE ADDITIONAL REMARKS WHICH HAVE BEEN INSERTED IN THE SECOND 
EDITION with SUPPLEMENT TO THE ORIGIN OF PRINTING AN APPENDIX IS 
ANNEXED, 1. ON THE FIRST-PRINTED GREEK BOOKS. 2. ON THE FIRST-PRINTED 
HEBREW BOOKS, WITH OBSERVATIONS ON SOME MODERN EDITIONS; AND A 
COLLATION, FROM WALTON'S POLYGLOTT, OF A REMARKABLE PASSAGE, AS PRINTED 
IN KINGS AND CHRONICLES. 3. ON THE EARLY POLYGLOTTS. London: W. Bowyer & 
J. Nichols, 1774 and 1776 and 1781. First Edition. Three small quarto 
(5-1/4" x 8-1/4") volumes bound in one in contemporary calf with later 
rebacking in lighter leather and new endpapers; xvi, 144; viii, 145-183; 
[1], [2], 179-300 pages. Consists of abridgments of Middleton's 
DISSERTATION CONCERNING THE ORIGIN OF PRINTING IN ENGLAND and Meerman's 
ORIGINES TYPOGRAPHICAE. Edited by William Bowyer and John Nichols. Bound 
with the 1776 AN APPENDIX TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THE ORIGIN OF PRINTING 
as well as the 1781 SUPPLEMENT TO THE ORIGIN OF PRINTING. An exploration 
of 15th century printing in England and elsewhere. With rather early 
annotations in an unidentified hand throughout the text and including 
four full pages of notes on the original endpapers. The final leaf of 
ads in the first volume not bound in but all else present. Scattered 
foxing, small piece of blank upper corner of first title torn off. Neat 
repairs to leather with some edgewear. Very Good.

Bigmore & Wyman in BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRINTING, pages 74-75, in regard to 
the 1776 Supplement state: "This appears to have been issued in order 
that possessors of the first edition of 'The Origin of Printing' might 
have the benefit of the annotators researches during the two years that 
elapsed before the publication of the second edition.... The unsold 
copies of the second edition were issued with a new title-page and 
'Supplement to the Origin of Printing,' paged 176-300, in 1781." 
(#020045)     $1,000

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