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CATALOGUE OF BOOKS, AND OTHER OBJECTS, 



Illustrative of the Art of TYPoaRA.PHY, Exhibited at the Rooms of the Canadian 

 Institute, Toronto, June 13-16, 1877, on the occasion of the Four Hundredth Anni- 

 versary OF the Introduction of Printing into England by William Caxton.* 



1. Works on the General Subject : Typography. 



Joseph Ames. Typographical Antiquities. London. W. Faden, for J. Robinson, 1749. 4to. 

 It has a good portrait of Caxton. 



Gerard IMeerman. Ongines Tj'pographicse. The Hague. 1765. 4to. It has a fine portrait 

 of Lawrence Coster. 



Henri Gockinga. De I'lnvention de I'lmprimerie. Paris. F. SchoeU. 1809. 12mo. 



Paul La Croix. Histoire de I'lmprimerie. Paris. Plon freres. 1852. Royal 8vo. Plates. 



Xoel Humphreys. History of Printing. London. Bernard Quariteh. 1868. Polio. Numerous 

 reproductions and /ac similes. 



Gulielmus Nieol. De Literis Inventis : Libri Sex. London : for H. Clement. 1714. 12mo. 

 The frontispiece shews the Earl of Pembroke in his Library. 



John Johnson. Typographia, London. John Johnson. 2 vols. Large paper copy. It 

 shews in a medallion the heads of Gutenberg, Schoeffer and Fust. 



J. Ph. Berjeau. Le Bibliophile Illustre. Londres. W. Jeffs. 1862. Octavo. Cuts. 



Le Bibliophile Frangais. Paris. Jules Bonaventure. 1868. 8vo. 



Richard Heber. Catalogue of the Bibliotheca Heberiana. London. W. Nicol. 12 vols. 8vo. 



A. A. Renouard. Bibliotheque d'un Amateur. Paris. Crapelet. 1819. 2 vols. Svo. 



Catalogue of the Kloss Library. London. Sotheby. 1835. Svo. 



2. Illustbations op the Pre-Typographic Period: Alphabets, 



Inscriptions, Manuscripts, etc. 



The Four Gospels. A Greek MS. on vellum. Twelfth Century. Small 4to. From the 

 Levant. With miniatures and illuminations at the beginning of each Gospel ; and in the 

 original cedar or cypress-wood covers. 



The Four Gospels. A Latin Manuscript on veUum. Fourteenth Century. 8vo. Western 

 monastic work. The capitals rubricated. The original cover replaced by olive-morocco antique 

 binding. 



The Book of Esther. A Hebrew manuscript on five sheets of prepared skin. Length of 

 roll or megillah, ten feet ; height, twelve inches. Lined at one end with green silk. 



Jac. de Effordia. Tractatus. Cologne. John Veldener. 1470. Xylographic or block-book. 

 Illuminated letters. 



The Biblia Pauperum Predicatorum. Xylographic or block-book. J. Russell Smith's fac 

 simile reproduction. Forty plates. 4to. 



A Chinese xylographic block or wooden tabid;, with a page of matter carved thereon, ready 

 for printing from. 



A Chinese volume, "The Book of Heroes." The paper printed on one side only, and folded 

 with the unprinted sides back to back. Many illustrations ; and examples of the transition 

 from formal to cursive writing on every page. Chinese binding. 



Chinese Bible. Gutzlaff. Printed and bound in the Chinese style. 



Japanese Alphabets and Object Lessons. Boldly drawn on sheets for school purposes. 



Arabic Manuscript. Preces et Capitula Alcorani. On Bombycine paper. Miniature 4to. 



• The works exhibited were kindly lent by the authorities in charge of the Public Libraries of Toronto, and 

 by several private amateurs of books in the city and neighbourhood. The Institute is indebted to the following 

 for loans on the occasion :—The Parliamentary Library of the Province of Ontario, the Library of the Univer- 

 sity of Toronto, the Library of Osgoode Ball, the Library of the Department of Public Education, the Library 

 of the Upper Canada Bible Society, N. G. Bigelow, Esq., Dr. Canniff, A. Elvins, Esq., Alderman Hallam. Dr. 

 C. B. Hall, Arthur Harvey, Esq., S. Hart, Esq., F. Krauss, Esq., F. A. Knapp, Esq., C. Lindsey, Esq.. Prof. 

 Loudon, W. J. Macdanell, Esq. (French ConsM), J. Notman, Esq., J. Paterson, Esq., Dr. Beeves, H. Eowsell. Esq., 

 Rev. Dr. Scadding, W. H. Van der Smiasen, Esq., S. J. Watson, Esq., Prof. Daniel Wilson, S, B. Willing, Esq., 

 J. Young, Esq. 



