Ueber Die Geschichte Der Erfindung Der Buchdruckerkunst Bey Gelegenheit Einiger Neuern Daruber

by Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf

$2,950 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

56 pp. Large 4to, attractive antique calf-backed paste-paper boards, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. Leipzig: J.G.I. Breitkopf, 1779. First edition. Breitkopf’s projected history of printing, of which the author completed the first part and which remained in manuscript and left material for the second part, was never published. Fine copy. ❧ Bigmore & Wyman, I, p. 81.

• Binding: Leather

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