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ASTLE, THOMAS. The Origin and Progress of Writing . . . illustrated by Engravings taken from Marbles, Manuscripts, and Charters, Ancient and Modern; also, Some Account of the Origin and Progress of Printing. Second Edition, with Additions. Engraved frontispiece portrait; 32 engraved paleographic plates, some partly hand-colored. Folio, 472x286 mm, mid-19th-century calf by francis bedford, rebacked; some offsetting from plates. London, 1803
