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[MOXON, JOSEPH], Regulae Trium Ordinum Literarum Typographicorum or the Rules of the Three Orders of the Print Letters: viz. {The Roman Italick, English} Capitals and Small.
London: for James Moxon, at the Sign of Atlas in Warrick Lane, and at his Shop at 3 Bells in Ludgatestriet, 1693. Second edition. Small 4to. Lacking first two leaves (title and dedication) and with 6 (of 7 plates). Title, dedication to Christopher Wrenn, and plate 13 supplied in photo facsimile. 52 pp. Later stiff wrappers. In half brown morocco slipcase and chemise. From the Library of Jackson Burke. Wing M-3020; Bigmore & Wyman Vol. II., p.56; Dawsons Typographia #850. ΒΆ "This edition of the work gives every appearance of having been made up from leftover sheets. The text appears to be from the same setting of type as the first edition of 1676.... The plates are printed on thin paper. with the exception of Plate I, which looks like new work for this edition, they correspond exactly with the like-numbered plates from thge section on letter cutting in Moxon's Mechanick Exercises of 1683..." - Dawsons
Offered for US$ 2500.00 by: James Cummins Bookseller - Book number: 39710