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Classic study on the early history of printing, honouring Laurens Jansz. Coster as the inventor
MEERMAN, Gerardus.Origines typographicae.     The Haue, Paris and London, for Nicolaus van Daalen, Guil. Franc. de Bure and Thomas Wilcox, 1765. 2 vols. Large 4to. Contemporary calf with gilt decorated borders along the edges of both sides, spine gilt in compartments with green morocco title labels lettered in gold, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. With 2 full-page engraved portraits of the author by J. Daullé after a painting by Peronneau and of Laurens Jansz. Coster by J. Houbraken after A. Schouman, one folding printed table with the genealogy of Larens Jansz. Coster, one folding and 9 full-page engraved plates of specimens from early printed books by A.I. Polack after the drawings by Corn. van Noorde, P.J. Foernier and C. de Salgas, and one half page engraved coat-of- arms of Johannes Schottus from Strasbourg in the text. XI (XII), 260; VIII, 312 pp. Magnificent large-paper copy, with the text framed by double ruling in red, of the first edition of this early and very important study on the origins of printing by Gerard Meerman (1722-1771). Meerman was not only a celebrated jurist and statesman - he was Pensionary of Rotterdam from 1748 till 1766 -, but also a famous man of letters and science. All his life he spent a considerable part of his large fortune collecting books and antiquities, establishing one of the most valuable libraries brought together by a private collector. His collections, as rich of manuscripts as of rare printed books, is still preserved in the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum at the Hague, the Dutch museum for the history of the book. Meerman also made good use of his fine library, publishing several learned works, of which the present one made him famous throughout Europe. In this work on the history of printing, one of the first studies on the subject, he claimed the honour of the invention of printing for the Dutch city of Haarlem and its printer Laurens Jansz. Koster, following a tradition that originates in the 16th century. Gutenberg would only have perfected Coster's invention. The contents of the second vol.: Letter of And. Coltée Ducavel to Meerman, together with Meerman's answer (p. 1-40); Observatio novissima de inventis Moguntinensium (p. 41-52); Probationes ad origines typographicas (several documents relating to the earliest history of printing, in Latin, German and English, the latter two also translated in Latin; p. 53-216); Index tabularum (p. 217-220); Addenda and corrigenda (p. 221-234); Disquisitio de translata in Italicum ... arte typographica (. p. 235-258); Indices (p. 258-310); Coronis de Laurentio Joh. fil. ... (p. 311-312). Beautiful set with the ex-libris of Syston Park.- (Some marginal staining in the first lvs. of the second vol.; hinges weak).
Graesse IV, p. 464; Lotte Hellinga & C. De Wolf, Laurens Jansz. Coster, passim.
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