printer's grammar
Subtitle: containing a concise history of the origin of printing ; also, an examination of the superficies, gradation, and properties of the different sizes of types cast by letter founders ; various tables of calculation ; models of letter cases ; schemes for casting off copy, and imposing ; and many other requisites for attaining a perfect knowledge both in the theory and practice of the art of printing. With directions to authors, compilers, &c. how to prepare copy, and to correct their own proofs
By: chiefly collected from Smith's edition ; to which are added directions for pressmen, &c. The whole calculated for the service of all who have any concern in the letter press.
Contributors: Fry, Edmund, 1754-1835.; Edmund Fry and Co.
Publisher: Printed by L. Wayland ; and sold by T. Evans ...
Published: 1787
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
Subjects: Printing -- Specimens; Printing -- History; Type and type-founding -- England -- London
Notes: Second t.p. on p. [273]: A specimen of printing types / by Edmund Fry and Co. Letter-Founders to the Prince of Wales. London : Printed in the year MDCCLXXXVII. (Specimen follows to p. 316.)

Appendix: "Practical directions to pressmen" p. 317-369.

MASS copy: Bound in half calf and marbled boards ; newspaper clipping of song about the Liverpool Typographic Society pasted on front paste-down.