Product Description: This is a study of a seventeenth-century printer and one of the books that he printed. It is an attempt to solve the problem of the relationship between the Quarto and Folio texts of King Lear, and its main purpose is to establish the bibliographical facts which are essential to a proper investigation of the 1608 Quarto text...read more

Product Description: John Day (1522-1584) is generally acknowledged to be the foremost English printer of the later sixteenth-century. As well as printing some of the most important books of his day, most notably John Foxe's "Acts and Monuments", he also pioneered enormous advances in English typography and book illustration...read more

Product Description: First edition. 208 books bibliographical described. Also reprinted are priced copies of important auction catalogues and bookseller's catalogues listing Morris material including the 1956 Cockerell sale. xxvi, 602 pages. cloth-backed boards, slipcase.. tall 8vo..