The Origin and Progress of Writing and Printing

Thomas Astle

By T. Bensley for J. White, 1803

Folio, 49 x 35 cm.  Large paper copy.  2nd, and best edition. Bound in worn / scuffed 20th century 3/4 leather over brown boards. Collated: [7], xxiv, 240.  Engraved portrait frontispiece and [32] epigraphic and manuscript-facsimile engraved plates, 9 in full or partial hand-color. Scattered spotting, heavily to frontis.  Some toning / offsetting opposite plates.