Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 149

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
LUCKOMBE, PHILIP. The History and Art of Printing. Woodcut text illustrations and imposition diagrams. [14], 502, [4] pages, including woodcut frontispiece portrait of Johann Gutenberg. Each page within type-ornament border. 8vo, modern black calf attractively gilt with latticework panel on covers; title soiled, some ink blots and smudges on pages 240-41, tear in lower outer corner of last few leaves slightly affecting borders and final catchword. London: W. Adlard and J. Browne for J. Johnson, 1771

Additional Details

first edition, second issue, with title dated 1771 instead of 1770. Pages [133]-174 contain A Specimen of Printing Types by William Caslon. Bigmore & Wyman I, 477; Birrell & Garnett 221.