Encyclopaedia of literary and typographical anecdote
Subtitle: being a chronological digest of the most interesting facts illustrative of the history of literature and printing from the earliest period to the present time : interspersed with biographical sketches of eminent booksellers, printers, type- founders, engravers, bookbinders and paper makers, of all ages and countries, but especially of Great Britain, with bibliographical and descriptive accounts of their principal productions ... Including curious particulars of the first introduction of printing into various countries, and of the books then printed : ... A history of all the newspapers, periodicals, and almanacks published in this country
By: compiled and condensed from Nichols's Literary anecdotes, and numerous other authorities by C.H. Timperley
Contributors: Timperley, C. H. 1795?-1861.; Timperley, C. H. 1795?-1861.
Edition: Second edition, to which are added, a continuation to the present time, comprising recent biographies, chiefly of booksellers, and a practical manual of printing
Publisher: Henry G. Bohn
Published: 1842
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 996
Subjects: Printing -- History; Printing -- Great Britain -- History; Booksellers and bookselling; Booksellers and bookselling -- Great Britain; Printing
Notes: A reissue, with new title page and 12 pages of additional matter, of the remainder stock of Timerley's Dictionary of printers and printing, 1839, and his Printers' manual, 1838. The Printers' manual (115, [1] p.) has special title page