The origin of printing
Subtitle: in two essays ... : with occasional remarks, and an appendix
Contributors: Middleton, Conyers, 1683-1750; Meerman, Gerard, 1722-1771; Fondo Cicognara (Biblioteca apostolica vaticana)
Edition: The second edition, with improvements.
Series: Cicognara library
Publisher: Printed for W. Bowyer and J. Nichols
Published: 1781
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [microform] :
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Printing; History; Origin and antecedents; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Supplement to the origins of printing.
Notes: Rewriting of Middleton's Dissertation on the origin of printing in England and Meerman's Origines typographicae.

Published anonymously. By William Bowyer, with the assistance of Dr. Owen and Mr. Missy. Cf. DNB.

First ed.: 1774.

Supplement to the origins of printing, 1781 p. [177]-300.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) I. The substance of Dr. Middleton's dissertation on the origin of printing in England; title: II. Mr. Meerman's account of the invention of the art at Harleim, and its progress to Mentz; title: Appendix to the second essay.