Origines typographicae. /
Meerman, Gerard,1722-1771.
Daullé, Jean,1703-1763egr
Houbraken, Jacobus,1698-1780egr
Karnebeek, Jacobus van,active 1753-1789prt
Prostant Hagae Comitum, : Apud Nicolaum van Daalen. ; Parisiis, : Apud Guil. Franc. de Bure, juniorem. ; Londini, : Apud Thomam Wilcox.,
MDCCLXV. [1765]
Vol. 1 with engraved portraits of Meerman, by J. Daullé after Peronneau, and Laurens Janszoon Coster, by J. Houbraken after A. Schouman (from an old portrait in the Enschede museum).
Printer from colophon (vol .2): "Origines typographicas ... ego Jacobus a Karnebeek, civis et chalcographus Haga-Comitanus ... typis in urbe Harlemo, artis inventrice, formatis descripsi ... Coepta vero totius operis impressio mense Augusto MDCCLXII. Absoluta mense Aprili MDCCLXV."
The preliminary gathering of vol. 2 is found in two versions: 2 leaves, containing only the title (*1r, verso blank) and table of contents (*2r-v); and 4 leaves, containing title (*1r, verso blank), dedication to the Académie royale des inscriptions et belles lettres and the Society of Antiquaries of London (*2r, verso blank), table of contents (*3r-v), and "Monitum novissimum de translatione typographiae in Angliam" (*4r-v). The title and contents are printed from different settings of type in the two versions.
Collation: 4to: v.1. *² 2*⁴ A-2I⁴ 2K² [$3 signed]; 136 leaves, pp. [I-V] VI-XI [XII], [1] 2-260 + 2 unnumbered plates + folded letterpress table facing p. 54 -- v.2. *² A-2D⁴ 2E² 2F-2Q⁴ 2R² [$3 signed]; 158 leaves, pp. [I-III] IV, [1-3] 4-312 (Variant: *⁴ ... 160 leaves, pp. [I-V] VI [VII] VIII ...) + plates, Tab. I-VI VI* VII-IX (Tab. I double, Tab. III printed in 2 colors, folded in some copies).
An abridged translation of this, together with an abridgment of Middleton's "Dissertation on the origin of printing in England" was issued by W. Boyer in 1776 under title: The origin of printing.
includes bibliographical references and index.
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Coster, Lourens Janszoon, approximately 1370-1439.
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