HISTORY OF PRINTING, TYPOGRAPHY
& THE PRIVATE PRESS
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Bouchot, Henri & Edward C. Bigmore: The Printed Book, its History, Illustration, and Adornment: from the days of Gutenberg to the present time [1887]
Plomer, Henry R.: A Short History of English Printing 1476-1898
Winship, George Parker: Gutenberg to Plantin: an outline of the early history of printing
Strange, Edward F.: Alphabets. A manual of lettering for the use of students, with historical and practical descriptions
Jacobi, Charles T.: Some Notes on Books and Printing: a guide for authors, publishers & others

Martin, John: Bibliographical Catalogue of Privately Printed Books, vol.1
Martin, John: Bibliographical Catalogue of Privately Printed Books, vol.2
Martin, John: Introduction to 2nd edition of the Bibliographical Catalogue of Privately Printed Books

Dickson, Robert: Introduction of the Art of Printing into Scotland
MacKay, A.J.G. : A short note on the Local Presses of Scotland
Scott, John: The Arithmetica of Jordanus Nemorarius. Paris, 1496. — Is it the first book with the printing of which a Scotsman was connected ?
Duff, E. Gordon: The Two First Books printed in the Scottish Language

FURTHER READING REFERENCES
To the History of Printing, Typography & Publishing.


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Last update 6th May, 2006