SMITH, John. The Printer's Grammar: wherein are exhibited, examined and explained, the Superficies, Gradation, and properties of the different Sorts and Sizes of Metal Types cast by Letter Founders,... London, 1755. 8o (203 x 123 mm.) Clean tear to one page (no text loss). Contemporary speckled calf (joints once detached and now amateurly repaired). FIRST EDITION of a work that has formed the basis for many subsequent grammars. Though the present work lacks the 4-page preface called for in Bigmore and Wyman, it is noted that this work was probably issued in parts originally which could account for the absence. Scarce. Bigmore & Wyman II, pg. 365.