A dissertation concerning the origin of printing in England. Shewing that it was first introduced and practised by our countryman William Caxton, at Westminster: and not, as is commonly believed, by a foreign printer at Oxford ... / By Conyers Middleton.

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Cambridge : Printed for W. Thurlbourn, etc., 1735.

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2 unnumbered leaves, 29 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf ; (4to)

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ESTC T14359

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The substance of this, together with an abridged translation of Meerman's Origines typographicæ, was issued by W. Bowyer in 1776 under title: The origin of printing.

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