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 ... compiled and condensed from Nichols's literary anecdotes, and numerous other authorities
By: by C.H. Timperley.
Edition: 2d ed. / to which are added, a continuation to the present time ... and a practical manual of printing.
Publisher: Henry G. Bohn
Published: 1842
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 996
Subjects: Printing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Printing -- History -- Dictionaries.; Printers -- Biography -- Dictionaries.; Booksellers and bookselling -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
Other titles: The printers' manual.
Notes: A reissue, with new title page and 12 additional pages, of the remainder stock of Timperley's Dictionary of printers and printing (1839) and his Printers' manual (1838): RLIN source.

Includes index.

MASS copy: 1 plate (Statue of Gutenberg) misbound.