Encyclopaedia of literary and typographical anecdote
Subtitle: being a chronological digest of the mostinteresting facts illustrative of the history of literature and printing from the earliest period to the present time. ...
By: Compiled and condensed from Nichols's literary anecdotes, and numerous other authorities, by C.H. Timperley.
Contributors: Shorter, Clement, fmo; Marston, R. B., fmo
Edition: Second edition, to which are added, a continuation to the present time, comprising recent biographies, chiefly of booksellers, and a practical manual of printing.
Publisher: Henry G. Bohn
Published: 1842
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32115
Subjects: Printing.; Printers.; Booksellers and bookselling.
Other titles: The printers' manual.; Dictionary of printers and printing.
Notes: A re-issue, with new title page and 12 pages of additional matter, of the remainder stock of Timperley's Dictionary of printers and printing, 1839, and his Printers' manual, 1838 (information from LC record). Printers' manual retains original title page.

Sigerson-Shorter bequest.

With inscription to Clement Shorter from R.B. Marston.