A typographical gazetteer / attempted by the Rev. Henry Cotton
1831, Second Edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press. Good copy bound in contemporary black 1/2 leather over boards. Wear and rubbing to the spine ends and panel edges, with some surface wear to leather backing. Gilt-crossed raised bands. Front hinge starting. Minor library marks remain. All edges marbled. Remains quite well-preserved overall. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 393 pages; "The second edition, corrected and much enlarged" --title page. xviii, 393 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Printing -- History -- Gazetteers. Printing -- United States -- History -- Fictitious imprints. Appendix. A: Index of pseudonymes, disguised, falsified, or fictitious places -- B: Certain academies found on the titles of books without specification of place. -- C: Vellum printed books in the Bodleian library -- D: A chronological arrangement of the places at which the art of printing is known to have been exercised. Item #219014
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