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Excerpt from Four Hundred Years of Printing: Books on Typography and Allied Arts, Books Printed by Aldus, Elzevir and Other Masters; Consigned by the Typothetae of the City of New York, With Fifty-One Additional Numbers From Private Collections
Borde (andrew). The Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge. Facsimile reprint with woodcuts. 4to, boards (back torn), uncut. [london, 1814] One of 120 copies With the autograph of and ms. Notes by John Mitford, the author and bibliophile. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.