JEAN GUTTEMBERG, INVENTOR OF PRINTING. A TRANSLATION BY DOUGLAS C. MCMURTRIE OF THE ESSAY IN ANDRE THEVET'S "VIES DES HOMMES ILLUSTRES," PARIS, 1589

Author: Andre Thevet | Douglas C. McMurtrie | Jean Guttemberg
Title: JEAN GUTTEMBERG, INVENTOR OF PRINTING. A TRANSLATION BY DOUGLAS C. MCMURTRIE OF THE ESSAY IN ANDRE THEVET'S "VIES DES HOMMES ILLUSTRES," PARIS, 1589
Publication: New York: Douglas C. McMurtrie, 1926

Description: Hardcover.

Limited Edition of 190 copies of which this is No. 28. 8.75 x 11.75in. 8pp. Frontispiece. English hand-made paper. Publisher's paper covered boards. This copy signed and inscribed by the translator and book historian Douglas McMurtrie on the front endpaper: "To John Connor with the high esteem of Douglas McMurtrie, Sept. 3, 1926." At the paste-down is the handsome engraved bookplate of the recipient, John Frank Connor, who was a small press printer. NEAR FINE in Very Good slipcase. The fragile binding has some very small surface nicks of the spine, otherwise remains Fine/As New. The slipcase shows marginal losses at the corners, otherwise remains strong and distinct. As pictured.

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