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Lot 131
Sale 1097 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
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Nov 8, 2022
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Nov 9, 2022
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DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall (1776-1847). Typographical Antiquities: or the History of Printing in England Scotland and Ireland. London: William Miller (vols. 1-2), John Murray (vol. 3) and Longman and others, 1810-1819.
4 volumes, 4to (268 x 204 mm). Pagination: xx, [2], 96, cxxxviii, [2], 396, xiii-xx; [4], vi, 30, [2], xii, 33-400, [i]-x, 401-614; [4], iv, 616, [2]; [4], ii, [2], 624. Half-titles and title-pages printed in red and black, 4 engraved portrait frontispieces, printed advertisements in each volume, directions to the binder in vols. I, III, and IV,, indices, errata in all but vol. IV, 38 plates, numerous illustrations (some full-page, some printed in red and black). (Some spotting, staining and offsetting.) Contemporary calf gilt, edges gilt (rebacked, some wear). Provenance: Arthur Dalrymple (armorial bookplates, a few annotations).
FIRST EDITION of Dibdin's illustrated revision of Ames's and Herbert's history of English printing. Windle & Pippin A15.
Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil
This lot is located in Chicago.