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The History and Art of Printing: In Two Parts

The History and Art of Printing: In Two Parts

Luckombe, Philip

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishi

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral ArtGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1108073395
ISBN13: 9781108073394
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Nov 6 2014
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.46
Height: 1.18 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Philip Luckombe (1730-1803), printer, author and shell-collector, published this work in 1771. (He had published a shorter version, A Concise History of the Origin and Progress of Printing, anonymously in the previous year.) Born in Exeter, he learned the printing trade there, and became a freeman of the city in 1776, but moved to London, where he wrote travelogues and several books on printing, edited dictionaries and encyclopaedias, and became an authority on shells. The first part of the book is concerned with the history of printing, including the various charters issued to the Stationers' Company, and the second with the practicalities of 'the art and mystery of printing' and 'the necessary materials used in a Printing House', including typefaces, presses and paper, and the duties of a warehouseman. This technical information continued to be used and quoted until the middle of the twentieth century.

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