A List of Books on the History and Art of Printing: And Some Related Subjects in the Public Library of the City of Boston and the Libraries of Harvard ... and the Boston Athenaeum
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Moon, George Washington. The oldest type-printed book in existence: a disquisition on the relative antiquity of the Pfister and Mazarine Bibles of the 65-line A Catholicon. Prefaced by a brief history of the invention of printing. London, 1901. Facsimiles.
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