Mechanick exercises on the whole art of printing (1683-4)
By: by Joseph Moxon ; edited by Herbert Davis & Harry Carter.
Contributors: Davis, Herbert John, 1893-1967.; Carter, Harry Graham.
Edition: 2d ed.
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1978
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
Subjects: Printing -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Description: [This book] has long been one of the most famous works on typography. Published in 1683-84, it was by forty years the first manual of printing in any language, covering absolutely everything that was known about printing and typography at the end of the 17th century. Still regarded as an authority on early techniques in hand-printing by historians of printing, this compendium of practical knowledge is a uniquely informative, fascinating and readable book that will interest all general readers . . . This edition reprints Moxon's text exactly with the original copperplate illustrations. -- Book cover.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 409-444.
Folded leaf attached to p. 3 of cover.
Originally reprinted in 1958 by Oxford University Press, London, from a copy of Mechanick exercises, vol. II, 1683, in the Bodleian Library (Gibson 200). This ed. represents a reprint of the Oxford University Press second ed.
Includes index.