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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Creator
Caslon, William, 1693–1766
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Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810–1879
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Curwen Press
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Dreyfus, John
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Duff, E. Gordon (Edward Gordon), 1863–1924
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Ellis, Havelock, 1859–1939
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Libanus Press
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Lizars, W. H. (William Home), 1788–1859
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Nissen, Claus, 1901–
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Sotheby, Samuel Leigh, 1805–1861
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1990
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Books
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unknown
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Period
19th century
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20th century
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18th century
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Work Type
wood engraving
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chromoxylograph
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private press books (publishing)
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type specimen
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woodcut
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Printing -- Specimens.
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Type and type-founding.
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Book ornamentation.
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Caslon, William, 1693–1766 -- Printer.
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Printing -- History.
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Type and type-founding -- Great Britain.
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Advertising cards -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
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Botany -- Pictorial works.
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Botany, Medical -- Bibliography.
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Bowes & Bowes and Putnam -- Publisher.
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Chapman, George, 1559?-1634.
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Coade, Eleanor, 1733–1821.
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Collins, T. -- Printer.
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Cook and Co. -- Printer.
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Curwen Press.
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Egyptian Hall (London, England)
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Emblems.
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Engraving -- Printing -- Specimens.
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Hayter, George, Sir, 1792–1871.
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Howard, John H. -- Printer.
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15th and 16th centuries
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19th century
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England
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Great Britain
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London
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Hammersmith
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Marlborough
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Nottingham (England)
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Stamford (England)
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Associated People
Chapman, George, 1559?-1634
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Hayter, George, Sir, 1792–1871
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Exhibition History
Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978)
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.
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English
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Dreyfus, John
Type specimen facsimiles;
1963
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Exhibition of Sir George Hayter's great historical pictures, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly
[1843]
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Curwen Press
A specimen book of types & ornaments in use at the Curwen Press, Plaistow, London
1928
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[Collection of printed ephemera
[1808-1849]
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The tale of the Emperor Coustans and of Over sea
1894]
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Lizars, W. H. (William Home), 1788–1859
Specimens of engraving, lithography & typography
1849
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Ellis, Havelock, 1859–1939
Chapman
1934
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Culs de lampe
1968
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Nissen, Claus, 1901–
Herbals of five centuries
1958
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Caslon, William, 1693–1766
A specimen
[1750 or 1751]
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[Printer's specimen book
[ca. 1815]
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[Notices of the annual dinners and balls of the Licensed Victuallers Association, Stamford and District]
[1872-1885]
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Duff, E. Gordon (Edward Gordon), 1863–1924
Early English printing;
1896
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Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810–1879
A history of the art of printing from its invention to its wide-spread development in the middle of the sixteenth century
1868
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Caslon, William, 1693–1766
A specimen
[1741]
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Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810–1879
Masterpieces of the early printers & engravers
1870
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Sotheby, Samuel Leigh, 1805–1861
The typography of the fifteenth century
1845
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Libanus Press
More daylight jobbery
1990