Mechanick exercises, or, The doctrine of handy-works
Subtitle: applied to the art of printing : the second volumne
By: by Joseph Moxon, member of the Royal Society, and hydrographer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty
Contributors: Greenough, J. J., former owner
Publisher: Printed for Joseph Moxon on the west-side of Fleet-ditch, at the sign of Atlas.
Published: 1683
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
Subjects: Industrial arts; Printing; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Mechanick exercises; Doctrine of handy-works
Notes: A continuation of Moxon's first volume of articles on various crafts, published 1677-1680 as a serial. Moxon explains the gap between vols. 1 and 2 as, "obstructed by the breaking out of the Plot [i.e. the Popish Plot], which took off the minds of my few customers from buying."

Volume 2 contains 24 numbered sections with continuous pagination.

Includes advertisements interspersed within items.

Volume 2 includes: Printing--Letter-Cutting--Printing-Letters--Compositers trade--Press-mans trade--Dictionary, alphabetically explaining the abstruse words and phrases that are used in typography.

English short title catalogue, R17720

Cataloged 20161212 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in modern brown buckram. The title is stamped in gilt onto a black spine label. The bookplate of the BPL is present on the front pastedown. Present on the title page are the perforation and embossed stamps of the BPL and the embossed stamp of J.J. Greenough, as well as an early bibliographic inscription. In this copy, plates 18-33 are bound-in at the back and the two engraved portraits are wanting. Bound uniformly with a copy of vol. 1 cataloged as G.676.M87R v.1 no.2.