The Origin of printing : In two essays ... : with occasional remarks, and an appendix.
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The Origin of printing : In two essays ... : with occasional remarks, and an appendix.
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xvi, 176 pages ; 22 cm (8vo)
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The Origin of printing : in two essays ... : with occasional remarks, and an appendix. The second edition, with improvements. London : Printed for W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, in Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, MDCCLXXVI [1776].
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 edition: 1774.
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(from t.p.) I. The substance of Dr. Middleton's dissertation on the origin of printing in England -- II. Mr. Meerman's account of the invention of the art at Harleim, and its progress to Mentz.
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Bowyer, William, 1699-1777, “The Origin of printing : In two essays ... : with occasional remarks, and an appendix.,” Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, accessed August 8, 2026, https://cwfjdrlsc.omeka.net/items/show/4065.