The John Crerar Library
A list of Books on the History of Industry and industrial Arts

PRINTING—INVENTION 207 Hartshorne, Charles Henry, 1802-1865. L655.11 1 v.2 The origin of printing: being the substance of a lecture delivered 1O31u7 to the Northampton Mechanics Institute, December, 1851. By the Rev. Charles Henry Hartshorne, ... . Northampton, T. Phillips, printer, [1852]. 16 p. 2iicm. (Zw Sotheby, S. Extracts, vol. 2.) Hodgkin, John Eliot. L090.4 H66 90291 Rariora, being notes of some of the printed books, manuscripts, historical documents, medals, engravings, pottery, etc., etc., col- lected (1858-1900), by John Eliot Hodgkin, ... . Vol.l-[lll]. London, S. Low, Marston & Co., ltd., [1902]. 3 vol. illus. 28ix22.icm. Some of the facsimiles have descriptive letter-press on verso. Some plates have illus- trations on both sides. Title within decorative border; headpieces, initials, floreated end papers, numerous facsimiles of title-pages, autograph letters, etc., etc. “Printed by Bemrose and Sons, limited, at their press in the parish of Saint Peter in the town of Derby m.cmii.” Contents. — vol. I. Sibi et amicis. A word on the threshold. Classification of the collection. A note of the collection. Index to note of the collection. [2], xix, 124p. 19 pl. (l col.), 3 port., 10 facsim.— vol. 2. Preface to incunabula. The dawn of typog- raphy. The invention. Wooden types. The evolution of the type-mould. Incunabula in the collection. Palæotypographia hollandica. xvth century proclamations. Water- marks. Bibliographical books. Index to incunabula. [ 10], iv, 297 p. 5 pl., 17 fac- sim. (partly fold.) — vol. 3. Preface to historical broadsides. English broadsides. In- dex to broadsides. Halinitropyrobolia. Books on fireworks. Firework displays. In- dex to firework books and displays. Lusus natures. (2], xiv, 161, viii, 92, II p. ill col. pi., 9 iacsim. Holtrop, Jan Willem, 1806-1870. L655.1492 M800 102287 Monuments typographiques des Pays-Bas au quinzieme siecle. Collection de fac-simile d’apres les originaux conservés å la Bib- liothéque royale de La Haye et ailleurs. Publiée avec 1’autorisa- tion de son excellence le ministre de 1’interieur .... La Haye, M. Nijhoff, 1857-1868. xiii, 126, [12] p. 133 pl., map. 37cm. This copy lacks a front, (port.) mentioned by Bigmore & Wyman, Bibliography of printing; probably an extra illustration inserted in the British Museum copy which they examined. Jansen, Henri, 1741-1812. 655.11 Ggoo 57422 De 1’invention de I’imprimerie, ou Analyse des deux ouvrages publies sur cette matiere par M. Meerman, .... Suivi dune notice chronologique et raisonnée des livres avec et sans date, imprimés avant l’année 1501, dans les dix-sept provinces des Pays-Bas, par M. Jacques Visser; et augmentee d’environ deux- cents articles par l’éditeur. Avec une planche. Paris, F. Schoell, 1809. xxiv, 392 p. i facsim. 2icm. Dedication signed: Jansen.