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[Title page of 1st ed., no ill.] – Antique Wall Art

[Title page of 1st ed., no ill.] — historic print
[Title page of 1st ed., no ill.]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Title page of 1st ed., no ill.]

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This is a title page from a first edition with no illustrations, so its interest lies entirely in the printed text and layout of a book issued in 1741. Eighteenth-century title pages often worked as advertisements, with long descriptive lines that promised the contents and named the printer and place of sale. The page's typography, including the choice of type, spacing, and rules or ornaments, shows how printers set a book apart in that period. For researchers, such pages also record the publication date and the conventions of the trade.

Medium1 print.
Notes1741
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,175 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-120258

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