Title: THE | BIOGRAPHY AND | TYPOGRAPHY | OF | WILLIAM CAXTON, | ENGLAND’S FIRST PRINTER. | BY | WILLIAM BLADES. | LONDON : | TRÜBNER & CO, 57 & 59 LUDGATE HILL. | STRASSBURG : | KARL I. TRÜBNER. | 1877. ||

Pagination: ffl, [2] blank, [i, ii] – t.p., imprint, [iii], iv, v – preface, [vi] – cul-de-lampe, [vii], viii – contents; [1], 2-383 [384] – imprint, 2] – blanks, bfl.; 18 plates: op. p. 8, 22, 54 (3), 60, 126 (4), 283, [311], 336, 358 (5).

Collation: 8vo; [A]⁴ B-Z⁸ AA⁸ BB⁷.

Exterior: 22.6 x 14.8 cm, printed on watermarked Zanders laid paper, original brown decorated paper boards, spine with decoration and lettering, marbled end-papers, water stain to bottom of upper cover, slightly rubbed, upper margin marbled, other untrimmed, binder’s mark to back pastedown: “Bound by Simpson & Renshaw”. Bookplates to front pastedown: upper: F. Marcham | Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. | Hornsey | 1907″; lower: (2) “From the library of | H. Harvey Frost”.

Caxton, William (British, c. 1422 – 1491).

Blades, William (British, 1824-1890)

Frank Marcham (1883 – 1934), motto: “Times are changed, we also are changed with them”.

This book is based on the author’s The Life and Typography of William Caxton, London: J. Lilly, 1861-63, – “A new ‘Life’ in a more handy form”.