The Life and Typography of William Caxton, England's First Printer, with Evidence of His Typographical Connection with Colard Mansion, the Printer at Bruges

by William Blades, comp

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First edition

London: Joseph Lilly, 1861-1863. First edition. 4to. 2 volumes: xv, 298; lix, 1 , 310, 1, errata pp. 57 plates from text, illustrations, etc., one folding, portrait frontispiece to volume one; with half-titles. Bigmore & Wyman Bibliography of Printing, p. 65: Blades , by his painstaking research, has cleared up many doubtful points in the career of our proto-printer, and his book is in every way worthy of the importance of its subject. Scattered

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