CAILLE, Jean de la. Histoire de l'Imprimerie et de la Librairie. Paris, 1689. 4o, 3 handsomely engraved illustrations and one decorative initial (minor offsetting, some darkening). Contemporary calf (covers detached, dry, chipped). FIRST EDITION. The author was a printer and bookseller in Paris, where he died in 1720. Bigmore and Wyman I, p.98.

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CAILLE, Jean de la. Histoire de l'Imprimerie et de la Librairie. Paris, 1689. 4o, 3 handsomely engraved illustrations and one decorative initial (minor offsetting, some darkening). Contemporary calf (covers detached, dry, chipped). FIRST EDITION. The author was a printer and bookseller in Paris, where he died in 1720. Bigmore and Wyman I, p.98.

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