Typographical Antiquities; or the History of Printing in England, Scotland, and Ireland: containing memoirs of our ancient printers, and a register of the books printed by them. Begun by the late Joseph Ames, F.R. & A. SS. Considerably augmented by William Herbert, of Cheshunt, Herts; and now greatly enlarged, with copious notes, and illustrated with appropriate engravings; comprehending the history of English literature, and a view of the progress of the art of engraving, in Great Britain; by the Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin. London: William Miller, 1810–1819. —As the title page indicates, there are several editions; the history of this work would itself make a fine subject for a typographical antiquarian.
Vol. I (1810).
Vol. II (1812).
Vol. III (1816).
Vol IV (1819).
An Index to Dibdin’s Edition of the Typographical Antiquities first compiled by Joseph Ames, with some references to the intermediate edition by William Herbert. Printed from a copy in the library of Sion College. London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society by Blades, East & Blades, 1899. —“This Index to Dibdin’s Edition of the Typographical Antiquities, or the History of Printing in England, Scotland and Ireland, originally compiled by Joseph Ames, is not a new work, but a reprint of one which exists, so far as is known, only in a single copy, that belonging to the library of Sion College, as to the provenance of which no information can be obtained. The Index has been reprinted at the suggestion of Mr. Gordon Duff, not because it is a good Index, but because the technical defects, which probably account for its never having been put into circulation, are not sufficiently serious to prevent its being a useful makeshift, the publication of which is quite worth the few pounds it has cost to print.”
The History of Printing in America. With a biography of printers, and an account of newspapers. To which is prefixed a concise view of the discovery and progress of the art in other parts of the world. In two volumes. By Isaiah Thomas, Printer, Worcester, Massachusetts. Worcester: From the Press of Isaiah Thomas, Jun. Isaac Sturtevant, printer. 1810.
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Collection of Facsimiles of the Types,
Woodcuts, and Capital Letters Used by Early
Printers. 42 plates. London, 1840.
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A Collection of Readable Reprints of Literary Rarities, illustrative of the history, literature, manners, and biography of the English nation, between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Edited by Charles Hindley, Esq. London: Reeves and Turner, 1876.
Illustrirte Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer technischen Entwicklung bis zur Gegenwart. Von Karl Faulmann. A. Hartleben’s Verlag. Wien, Perst, Leipzig. [1882.] —With alphabets of the type of all the important early printers, and color illustrations of ornamented books, this is a priceless typographical resource.
A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: with notes, historical and bibliographical, on the rise and progress of English typography. By Talbot Baines Reed. London: Elliot Stock, 1887.
The Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders of London and Westminster in the Fifteenth Century. A series of four lectures delivered at Cambridge in the Lent term, MDCCIC. By Gordon Duff. Privately printed, 1899.
Fifteenth Century English Books. A bibliography of books and documents printed in England and of books for the English market printed abroad. By E. Gordon Duff. Printed for the Author at the Cost of the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press, 1917.
Les Plus anciens monuments de la typographie parisienne. Préfaces typographiques des livres sortis des presses de Sorbonne (1470-1472). Recueil de fac-similes. Précédé d’une introduction par Pierre Champion. Paris: Honoré Champion, 1904.
Les Cartes à jouer du XIVe au XXe siècle. Par Henry-René d’Allemagne. Paris: Hachette, 1906. —Two huge folio volumes filled with illustrations scanned at more than 35-megapixel resolution.