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[7], xxiv, 240 pp. Portrait frontispiece; 32 engraved plates, many folding, several with hand coloring. (4to), half calf and marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco spine label. Second Edition.

Errata slip tipped it at rear. "It is a wide-ranging piece of scholarship, with excellent plates of facsimiles of scripts, engraved by B.T. Pouncy; universal in its scope, it includes a history of printing as well as accounts of the materials used for writing, numerals and the characters for numerals, and secret writing and ciphers.." (DNB).