The origin of printing: in two essays: I. The substance of Dr. Middleton's Dissertation on the origin of printing in England. II. Mr. Meerman's account of the invention of the art. An appendix is annexed, 1. On the first-printed Greek books. 2. On the first-printed Hebre w books, with Observations on some modern Editions; and a Collation, from Walton's Polyglott, of a remarkable Passage, as printed in Kings and Chronicles. 3. On the early polyglotts

All titles

• The origin of printing: in two essays: I. The substance of Dr. Middleton's Dissertation on the origin of printing in England. II. Mr. Meerman's account of the invention of the art. An appendix is annexed, 1. On the first-printed Greek books. 2. On the first-printed Hebre w books, with Observations on some modern Editions; and a Collation, from Walton's Polyglott, of a remarkable Passage, as printed in Kings and Chronicles. 3. On the early polyglotts
• Dissertation concerning the origin of printing in England. Abridgments
• Origines typographicae. English. Abridgments.

People / Organizations

• Conyers Middleton (Author)
• William Bowyer the younger ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed for W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, at Cicero's Head, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, MDCCLXXIV. [1774]

Added name

Meerman, Gerard, 1722-1771.

Publication year

1774

ESTC No.

N10660

Grub Street ID

667

Description

xvi,144,[2]p. ; 8°.

Note

Edited by William Bowyer and John Nichols

Consists of abridgments of Middleton's 'Dissertation concerning the origin of printed in England' and Meerman's 'Origines typographicae'

With a final advertisement leaf

Reissued in 1776 with the addition of 'An appendix to the first edition'.