E. Gordon Duff — Early Printed Books

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Limited, 1893. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated study on early printing and the earliest printed books from British bibliographer Edward Gordon Duff. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and ten plates. Collated complete. A detailed study on the history of the printing press and the earliest printed books. With chapters on the invention of printing, the spread of printing in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, and Sweden, and the spread of the art in Britain. With a study of bookbinding and collecting. Written by Edward Gordon Duff, known as Gordon Duff, a British bibliographer and librarian known for his works on early English printing. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and fading to the extremities. Light loss to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot, further spotting to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .