THE AUTHOR’S COPY A Chronology of Printing

FIRST EDITION. THE AUTHOR’S PERSONAL COPY: A compendium of information on matters connected with printing, its first introduction into Europe and its spread throughout the world. The work spans the reputed invention of paper in China in 105 through until the death of Stanley Morrison, typographer, scholar and historian of printing in 1967.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Illustrated dust jacket in good condition protected by a transparent adhesive cover, a little shelf worn to top and bottom edges Green cloth boards in very good condition, titled in gilt to spine. End papers clean. Slight yellowing to front free end paper and a little bubbling of the paper to top gutter of rear paste down. Otherwise text block sound, unmarked and clean throughout. b/w Illustration opening the text is a reduced copy of the device of the Parisian bookseller Michel de Roigny (1544-91). 228 pp. including index. Laid in are 2 facsimiles of examples of the Fournier le jeune script type.