Principia Typographica The Book Blocks Or Xylographic Delineations Of Scripture History Issued

by Samuel Leigh Sotheby

$7,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition · Signed

First edition, limited to 215 sets. Numerous plates and illustrations, some hand colored. 3 vols. Folio. Modern blue calf-backed marbled paper boards, contrasting title labels. Bigmore & Wyman II, p.370. Item #322489 The Memoranda is inscribed by Sotheby to John Thadeus Delane 1817-1879 , editor of The Times, as an addition to the copy of the Principia Typographica reviewed in that paper .

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