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London: Oxford University Press, 1963. First published in 1961, this edition (with corrections) 1963. Hardback. lxxx, 1 - 104, (Catalogue & Specimen of 1782 reproduced entire by photo-lithography and separately paginated) [i - ii], [1], 2 - 48, 105 - 146pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. The Dissertation of Mores (1730 - 1778) was the pioneer history of English typefounding. The author printed 80 copies at his home just before he died, and John Nichols added an appendix and sold them. The book has been much quoted by later writers, and it is a valuable authority for the typography of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in England. A good deal of curious is given in its digressions. The reprint of 1924 is rare and the reasons for editing the work are chiefly that the text is not easy to come by, that it needs notes to render it intelligible and an index, and that it gains greatly by being produced, as Mores intended that it should be, with a specimen of many of the old types described in… Read More