Title: Stepping-stones to the art of typography /
Authors: Guppy, Henry,; Rogers, Bruce,; Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1928
Publisher: The University press;
Physical description: 45 p. : facsims. ; 26 cm
Language: English
LC classification: Z
Contents: Seal impression -- Chinese seals -- Invention of paper -- The impulse behind early prints -- Inked stone rubbings -- Block-printing in China -- The earliest block-print -- The earliest block-book -- Non-Buddhist printing -- Moslem neglect of printing -- East and West -- The coming of printing to Europe -- The impulse behind printing -- Chinese method of printing -- Chinese ink -- Playing cards -- Religious prints -- Dated block-prints -- The Saint Christopher print -- Block-books.
Notes: Facsimiles 1 and 2 (on one plate) are wanting. "Reprinted from 'The Bulletin of the John Rylands library', v.12, no. 1, January, 1928", p. 83-121.
Subject headings (LCSH): Block books.; Printing--China--History.; Printing--History--Origin and antecedents.