LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES CONSULTED OR REFERRED TO.
AMES (JOSEPH), Typographical Antiquities; being an Historical Account of Printing in England. London, 1749, 4to.
AMES (JOSEPH), Typographical Antiquities; augmented by William Herbert. 3 vols. London, 1785–90, 4to.
AMMAN (JOST.), Eygentliche Beschreibung aller Stände und...Handwerker. Frankfurt, 1568, 4to.
ARBER (EDWARD), Transcripts of the Registers of the Stationers’ Company. London, 1875–77, 4 vols. 4to.
ASTLE (THOS.), The Origin and Progress of Writing. London, 1784, 4to.
BELOE (W.), Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books, 6 vols. London, 1807–12, 8vo.
BERJEAU, (J. PH.), Speculum Humanæ Salvationis: Reproduit en facsimile. Londres, 1861, 4to.
BERNARD (A. J.), Antoine Vitré et les Caractères orientaux de la Bible Polyglotte de Paris. Paris, 1857, 8vo.
BERNARD (A. J.), Les Estienne et les types grecs de Francis 1er. Paris, 1856, 8vo.
BERNARD (A. J.), De l’Origine et des Débuts de l’Imprimerie en Europe, 2 vols. Paris, 1853, 8vo.
BIBLIANDER (T.), In Commentatione de ratione communi omnium linguarum et literarum. Tiguri, 1548.
BIGMORE and WYMAN, A Bibliography of Printing, 3 vols. London, 1880–6, 4to.
BLADES (WILLIAM), Life and Typography of William Caxton, 2 vols. London, 1861–3, 4to.
BLADES (WILLIAM), Some Early Type Specimen Books of England, Holland, France, Italy and Germany. London, 1875, 8vo.
BODONI (G.), Manuale Tipografico, 2 vols. Parma, 1818, 4to.
BOWERS BROS., Proposals for Establishing a Graduated Scale of Sizes for the Bodies of Printing Types. Sheffield, 1841, 12mo.
BRITISH MUSEUM, Catalogue of Early English Books to 1640, 3 vols. London, 1884, 8vo.
BUTLER, (A. J.), Ancient Coptic Churches of Egypt, 2 vols. Oxford, 1884, 8vo.
CAILLE (J. DE LA), Histoire de l’Imprimerie et de la Libraire. Paris, 1689, 4to.
CAXTON CELEBRATION....Catalogue of the Loan Collection at South Kensington. London, 1877, 8vo.
CHALMERS (ALEX.), The General Biographical Dictionary, 32 vols. London, 1812–17, 8vo.
CHAMBERS (EPHRAIM), Cyclopœdia, 2 vols., 1728, folio (also editions, 1738 and 1784–6).
CHEVILLIER (A.), L’Origine de l’Imprimerie de Paris. Paris, 1694, 4to.
COTTON (HY.), A Typographical Gazetteer attempted. 1st series, 2nd ed., Oxford, 1831, 8vo; second series, 1866, 8vo.
D’ANVERS (Mrs.), Academia, or the Humours of the University of Oxford, 1691.
DAUNOU (P. C. F.), Analyse des opinions diverses sur l’Origine d l’Imprimerie. Paris, 1810, 8vo.
DE GEORGE (LÉON), La Maison Plantin à Anvers. 2nd ed. Bruxelles, 1878, 8vo.
DE VINNE (THEODORE), The Invention of Printing. New York, 1877, 8vo.
DIBDIN (T. F.), The Bibliographical Decameron, 3 vols. London, 1817, 8vo.
DIBDIN (T. F.), Introduction to the Knowledge of the rare and valuable Editions of the Classics. 4th ed., 2 vols. London, 1827, 8vo.
DICKSON (R.), The Introduction of the Art of Printing into Scotland. Aberdeen, 1885, 8vo.
DIDOT (PIERRE), Epitre sur les Progrès de l’Imprimerie. Paris, 1784, 8vo.
DUNTON (JNO.), The Life and Errors of. London, 1705, 8vo.
DUPONT (PAUL), Histoire de l’Imprimerie, 2 vols. Paris, 1854, 8vo.
DÜRER (ALB.), Unterweissung der Messung. Nuremburg, 1525, folio.
[DUVERGER (E.)], Histoire de l’invention de l’Imprimerie par les Monuments. Paris, 1840, folio.
EDWARDS (E.), Libraries and Founders of Libraries. London, 1865, 8vo.
[ENCYCLOPÆDIA], Article sur Fonderie en Caractères de l’Imprimerie. Paris, n. d., folio.
ENSCHEDÉ, Specimen de Caractères Typographiques Anciens. Harlem, 1867, 4to.
ESSAY on the Original, Use, and Excellency of the Noble Art and Mystery of Printing. London, 1752, 8vo.
EVELYN (JNO.), Diary and Correspondence, 4 vols. London, 1850–2, 8vo.
FAULMAN (C.), Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst. Vienna, 1882, 8vo.
FIGGINS (V.), Facsimile of Caxton’s Game of the Chesse; with remarks. London, 1855, folio.
FINESCHI (V.), Notizie Storiche sopra la Stamperia di Ripoli. Fiorenze, 1781, 8vo.
FISCHER (G.), Essai sur les Monumens typographiques de Jean Gutenberg. Mayence, 1802, 4to.
FOURNIER (P. S.), Manuel Typographique, utile aux gens de lettres, 2 vols. Paris, 1764–66, 8vo.
FRANKLIN (BENJ.), Works of, 2 vols., London, 1793, 8vo; also Bigelow’s edition, 3 vols. Philadelphia, 1875, 8vo.
FREEMASON’S MAGAZINE. London, 1796, 8vo.
FRY (EDMUND), Pantographia. London, 1799, 8vo.
GAELIC SOCIETY OF DUBLIN: Transactions of, Dublin, 1808, 8vo.
GAND (M. J.), Recherches Historiques et Critiques sur la Vie et les Editions de Thierry Martens. Alost, 1845, 8vo.
GED (WILLIAM), Biographical Memoirs of. London, 1781, 8vo.
GENTLEMAN’S MAGAZINE. Vols. for 1792, 1793, 1803, 1836.
GOUGH (R.), British Topography, 2 vols. London, 1780, 4to.
GRESWELL (W. P.), A View of the Early Parisian Greek Press, 2 vols. Oxford, 1838, 8vo.
GUIGNES (J. DE), Essai Historique sur la Typographie Orientale et Grecque de l’Imprimerie Royale. Paris, 1787, 4to.
GUTCH (JNO.), Collectanea Curiosa, 2 vols. Oxford, 1781, 8vo.
HANSARD (T. C.), Typographia. London, 1825, 8vo.
[HANSARD (T. C.), the Younger.] Treatises on Printing and Type-founding (from the Encycl. Britan.). Edinburgh, 1841, 8vo.
HARLEIAN MSS.—The Bagford Collections.
HARLEIAN MISCELLANY, 8 vols. Lond., 1744–46, 4to. Vol. 3.
HARWOOD (EDW.), A View of the Various Editions of the Greek and Roman Classics. Lond., 1775, 12mo.
HAWKINS (SIR JOHN), A General History of the Science and Practice of Music. London, 1776, 4to. Vol. 5.
HEARNE (THOS.), Reliquiæ Hernianæ. Oxford, 1869, 4to, Vol. 2.
HODGSON (T.), An Essay on the Origin and Progress of Stereotype Printing. Newcastle, 1820, 8vo.
IMPRIMERIE ROYALE (de Paris). Specimen: Ancienne Typographic. Paris, 1819, 4to.
JAMES (JOHN), Catalogue and Specimen of the large and extensive Printing Type Foundry of. London, 1782, 8vo.
LABORDE (LÉON), Débuts de l’Imprimerie â Strasbourg. Paris, 1840, 8vo.
LA CROIX, FOURNIER et SERÉ, Histoire de l’Imprimerie, etc. Paris, 1852, 4to.
LAMBINET (PIERRE), Origine de l’Imprimerie, 2 vols. Paris, 1810, 8vo.
LANSDOWNE MSS., No. 231.
LATHAM (H.), Oxford Bibles and Printing in Oxford. Oxford, 1870, 8vo.
LAUD (Arch.), Works of, 7 vols. Oxford, 1847–60, 8vo. Vol. 5.
LEMOINE (HY.), Typographical Antiquities. London, 1797, 12mo.
LINDE (M. A. VAN DER), The Haarlem Legend of the Invention of Printing by L. J. Coster, critically examined. Lond., 1871, 8vo.
LOMÉNIE (L. DE), Beaumarchais et ses Temps. Edwards’ translation, 4 vols. London, 1856, 8vo. Vol. 3.
LONDON PRINTERS’ LAMENTATION. (London, 1660) 4to.
LONG (J. LE), Discours Historique sur les principales editions des Bibles Polyglottes. Paris, 1713, 12mo.
LUCE (L.), Essai d’une nouvelle typographie. Paris, 1771, 4to.
[LUCKOMBE (P.)], A Concise History of the Origin and Progress of Printing. London, 1770, 8vo.
MCCREERY (JNO.), The Press, a Poem. Published as a Specimen of Typography. Liverpool, 1803–27, 4to.
MADDEN (J. P. A.), Lettres d’un Bibliographe, 5 vols. Paris, 1868–78, 8vo.
MASON (MONCK), Life of William Bedell, D.D. London, 1843, 8vo.
MEERMAN (G.), Origines Typographicæ. 2 vols. Hagæ Com., 1765, 4to.
MILTON (JOHN), Areopagitica. (Arber’s Reprint.) London, 1868, 8vo.
MORES (E. ROWE), A Dissertation upon English Typographical Founders and Founderies. London, 1778, 8vo.
MOXON (JOSEPH), Regulæ Trium Ordinum Literarum Typographicarum. London, 1676, 4to.
MOXON (JOSEPH), Mechanick Exercises, or the Doctrine of Handy-Works, 2 vols. London, 1677–83, 4to.
MOXON (JOSEPH), Tutor to Astronomy and Geography, 4th ed. London, 1686, 4to.
NICHOLS (JNO.), Biographical and Literary Anecdotes of William Bowyer, Printer, F.S.A. London, 1782, 4to.
NICHOLS (JNO.), Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, 9 vols. London, 1812–15, 8vo.
NICHOLS (JNO.), Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century, 8 vols. London, 1817–58, 8vo.
NOBLE (MARK), Continuation of Granger’s Biographical History of England, 3 vols. London, 1806, 8vo.
OTTLEY (W. Y.), An Inquiry concerning the Invention of Printing. London, 1863, 4to.
OWEN (HUGH), Two Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol. 1873, 8vo.
PACIOLI (LUCA), De Divinâ Proportione. Venice, 1509, folio.
PALMER (SAM.), A General History of Printing. London, 1732, 4to.
PANIZZI (SIR A.), Chi era Francesco da Bologna? London, 1858, 16mo.
PANZER (G. W.), Annales Typographici, 11 vols. Nuremberg, 1793–1803, 4to.
PARR (RICHD.), The Life of James Usher, Archbishop of Armagh. London, 1686, folio.
PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS. Abridgments of Specifications relating to Printing (1617–1857). London, 1859, 8vo.
PATER (PAULUS), De Germaniæ miraculo, optimo, maximo, Typis Literarum . . Dissertatio. Lipsisæ, 1710, 4to.
PHILIPPE (J.), Origine de l’Imprimerie â Paris. Paris, 1885, 4to.
PRINTER’S ASSISTANT, The. London, 1810. 12mo.
PRINTER’S GRAMMAR, The. London, 1787, 8vo.
PSALMANAZAR (GEO.), Memoirs of. London, 1765, 8vo.
REID (JNO.), A Specimen of the Printing Types and Flowers belonging to. Edinburgh, 1768, 8vo.
RENOUARD (A.), Annales de l’Imprimerie des Alde. 3 vols. Paris, 1825, 8vo.
RENOUARD (A.), Catalogue de la Bibliotheque d’un Amateur. 4 vols. Paris, 1819, 8vo.
RICHARDSON (REV. J.), A History of the Attempts that have been made to convert the Popish Native of Ireland. 1712, 8vo.
RICHARDSON (WM.), A Specimen of a New Printing Type, in Imitation of the Law-hand. London, n.d. broadside.
RIVINGTON (C. R.), Records of the Company of Stationers. London, 1883, 8vo.
ROCCHA (ANGELO), Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana. Rome, 1591, 4to.
ROSSI (J. B. DE), De Hebraicæ Typographiæ Origine ac Primitiis. Parma, 1776, 4to.
RUSHWORTH’S Historical Collections, 8 vols. London, 1659–1701, folio. Vol. 2.
SARDINI (G.), Storia Critica di Nicolao Jenson, 3 vols. Lucca, 1796–98, folio.
SAVAGE (WM.), A Dictionary of the Art of Printing. London, 1841, 8vo.
SAVAGE (WM.), Practical Hints on Decorative Printing. London, 1822, 4to.
SCHOEPFLIN (J. D.), Vindicisæ Typographiæ. Argentorati, 1760, 4to.
SCHWAB (M.), Les Incunables Orientaux. Paris, 1883, 8vo.
SHENSTONE (WM.), Works in Verse and Prose, 3 vols. London, 1791, 12mo.
SKEEN (W.), Early Typography. Colombo, 1872, 8vo.
SMITH (JNO.), The Printer’s Grammar. London, 1755, 8vo.
SMITH (THOS.), Vitæ quorundam eruditissimorum et illustrium Virorum. London, 1707, 4to.
STAR-CHAMBER. A Decree of Starre Chambre concerning Printing (11 June, 1637). London, 1637, 4to.
STATE PAPERS, Domestic, Calendars of, Various years.
STOWER (C.), The Printer’s Grammar. London, 1808, 8vo.
STRYPE (JNO.), Life and Acts of Matthew Parker. London, 1711, folio.
THIBOUST (C. L.), De Typographiæ Excellentiâ; Carmen. Paris, 1718, 8vo.
THOMAS (ISAIAH), The History of Printing in America, (2nd ed.), 2 vols., Albany, 1874, 8vo.
TIMPERLEY (C.), Encyclopædia of Literary and Typographical Anecdote. London, 1842, 8vo.
TIMPERLEY (C.), Songs of the Press, London, 1833, 8vo.
TODD (H. J.), Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Rt. Rev. Brian Walton, D.D., 2 vols. London, 1821, 8vo.
TORY (GEOFROY), Champ-Fleury. Paris, 1529, sm. folio.
TRITHEMIUS (JOH.), Annales Hirsaugienses, 2 vols. St. Gall, 1690, 4to.
TWYN (JNO.), An Exact Narrative of the Tryal and Condemnation of. Lond., 1664, 4to.
UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE, London, 1750, 8vo.
[WATSON (JAMES)], The History of the Art of Printing. Edinburgh, 1713, 8vo.
WETTER (JOH.), Kritische Geschichte der Erfindung der Buchdruckerkunst. Mainz, 1836, 8vo., and atlas of plates.
WILLEMS (A.), Les Elzevier; Histoire et Annales Typographiques. Bruxelles, 1880.
WILKINS (DAVID), Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ et Hiberniæ. London, 1737, folio. Vol. 4.
WOOD (ANTHONY À), Athenæ Oxonienses, 2 vols. Lond., 1791–2, folio.
YCAIR (J. DE), Orthographia Practica. Caragoça, 1548, 4to.