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[MARCHAND, Prosper]. Histoire de l'Origine et des prémiers progrès de l'Imprimerie, The Hague: 1740, 2 parts in one volume, 4°, engraved frontispiece (perforation stamp on title and one text leaf, ink stamps on verso of frontispiece), contemporary half sheep (lacking backstrip, block split) [Bigmore & Wyman II, p.22] Provenance: JCL -- Johann Daniel SCHOEPFLIN. Vindiciae Typographicae, Strassburg: J.G. Bauer, 1760, 4°, 7 plates of facsimiles, one folding (perforation stamp on title), later boards (lacking backstrip, both covers detatched) [Bigmore & Wyman II, p.318] Provenance: JCL -- Gerard MEERMAN. Origines Typographicae, Gravenhage, N. van Daalen, 1765, 2 volumes in one, 4°, 2 engraved portraits, 10 plates of facsimile type specimens, one folding table (perforation stamp on title), later half morocco (worn, stitching broken) [Bigmore & Wyman II, p.32] Provenance: JCL -- [William BOWYER]. The Origins of Printing, London: for Bowyer & Nichols, 1776, 8°, second edition (perforation stamp on title, lightly browned). [Bigmore & Wyman I, p.74] (4)