Printer's Grammar

Thoemmes Press, 1998. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, green cloth lettered gilt on red to the spine, dust jacket not called for. A near fine copy with a clean and unmarked text, a facsimile reprint of the 1755 edition, iv, 312pp.

Paperback / softback. New. The author of this 1755 work is unknown - John Smith may not even have been his real name. He describes the typesetting of books, from the formation of type to imposing and correcting, in a comprehensive survey which gives a fascinating account of the eighteenth-century compositor's craft.

Paperback. New.

Hardback. New.