The origin of printing: in two essays: I. The substance of Dr. Middleton's Dissertation on the origin of printing in England. II. Mr. Meerman's account of the invention of the art. An appendix is annexed, 1. On the first-printed Greek books. 2. On the first-printed Hebrew books, ... 3. On the early polyglotts.
Middleton, Conyers,1683-1750.
Meerman, Gerard,1722-1771.
London : printed for W. Bowyer and J. Nichols,
1774.
A reissue with the same date has additional appendices.
With a final advertisement leaf.
Edited by William Bowyer and John Nichols.
Consists of abridgments of Middleton's 'Dissertation concerning the origin of printed in England' and Meerman's 'Origines typographicae'.
ESTC
Also reproduced on microfilm. Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications, Inc., 1985. The Eighteenth Century ; reel 1485, no. 23.