Author: Mayer, Anton
Title: Wiens Buchdrucker-Geschichte 1482-1882. Herausgegeben Von Den Buchdruckern Wiens. [Two Volumes]
Description: Wien, Comites zur Feier der Vierhundertj, einfuhrung der buchdruckerkunst in Wien, in commission bei W. Frick, 1887. First edition. Later quarter cloth over paper covered boards. xvi, 404 pp.; viii, 427 pp. Plates. Illus. with 25 color & b/w plates, 203 in-text drawings, engravings and maps, and other illustrations & head and tail pieces. 4to. "The notices of the presses from 1482 to 1682 are accompanied by bibliographies, enumerating in all 2232 titles, excluding works listed by Denis (Wiens buchdruckergeschichte bis MDLX. 1782 [und Nachtrag, 1793]) and works of minor importance published after 'A list of the writings of William Turner'," (p. xi-xvii). Original covers laid on boards, paper spine labels, new endpapers, tiny institutional owner's stamp to verso title page, scattered foxing, minor edgewear, overall still very good copies.

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