Typographia, or, The printers' instructor
Subtitle: including an account of the origin of printing, with biographical notices of the printers of England, from Caxton to the close of sixteenth century : a series of ancient and modern alphabets, and Domesday characters, together with an elucidation of every subject connected with the art
By: by J. Johnson, Printer.
Contributors: Harvey, William, 1796-1866.
Series: Blake -- no. 1173
Publisher: Published by Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green ...
Published: 1824
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 663
Subjects: Printing -- History; Printing -- Great Britain -- History; Printers -- Biography
Other titles: Typographia; Printers' instructor; Johnson's Typographia
Notes: Includes indexes.

Some wood engravings by William Harvey.

Each volume has an added engraved title-page.

With engraved frontispiece portraits of William Caxton (vol. 1) and John Johnson (vol. 2).  The third engraved plate gives the arms of the Roxburghe Club.

Colophon: J. Johnson, typ., Apollo Press ...

Issued simultaneously in 3 formats: 12mo, 8vo (large paper, and 4to (largest paper, called "Roxburghe copies"). Cf. Lowndes, v. 5, p. 1215.

Gift to Victoria University Library. Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.

Victoria University Library copy is in small paper (12mo) format.