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Accession number
PML 79645
Creator
Maittaire, Michael, 1667-1747.
Published
Londini : Typis Benj. Motte, Impensis Christoph. Bateman, 1709.
Credit line
Purchased on the H.S. Morgan Antiquarian Reference Fund, 1987.
Notes
Contains an engraved frontispiece portrait of Robert Estienne and 4 pages of facsimiles of the different versions of the Estienne printer's devices.
First edition of the first published work by Maittaire: Bigmore & Wyman II, 14.
Includes index.
Library's copy has the 7-page Appendix.
Signatures: a⁴ A-2N⁸ a-g⁸ h¹² (last leaf blank).
Two parts in one volume: first part contains biographical information of the Estiennes, the second part is a bibliography of the works printed by the Estiennes.
Description
[xvi], 564, [iv], 133 p. : illustrations, portrait ; 20 cm (8vo)
Binding
Contemporary calf.
Classification
Department