Bibliography. Hansard (Thomas Curson), Typographia: An Histo...

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Bibliography. Hansard (Thomas Curson), Typographia: An Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Art of Printing [...], bound as two, sole edition, London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1825, ex-lib copy and with their stamps and markings, portrait frontispiece, folding and full-page plates, some of which are defective or repaired, in-text vignettes, late 19th century institutional quarter-morocco over cloth, stained red edges, 8vo, Lackington (James), Memoirs of [...] The present Bookseller [...], A New Edition, London: Printed for the Author, 1792, repaired portrait frontispiece, rebacked calf, 8vo, [&] Gent (Thomas, Printer, of York), The Life of, Written by Himself, sole edition, London: Printed for Thomas Thorpe, 1832, stained portrait frontispiece, original publisher's boards, disbound, uncut edges, 8vo, (4).  

Provenance: 2nd: William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland (1857-1943), of Welbeck Abbey, armorial bookplate to recto pastedown. 3rd: 1) Edmund Sydney Williams (1817-1891), armorial bookplate to recto pastedown, 2) Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921), of Franche Hall, Worcestershire. All: William St Clair FBA (1937-2021), manuscript inscriptions.