| Description | Bagford writes: 'The Antiquity of Printing, and the first Inventors, hath been treated of by many Authors: I shall now only give a short account of the Observations I have made in many Years from old Books of several sorts and kinds.' See CLP/16/38 for additional observations on the history of printing by Bagford.
Subject: Printing / History
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An essay on the invention of printing, by Mr. John Bagford; with an account of his collections for the same, by Mr. Humfrey Wanley, F. R. S. Communicated in two letters to Dr. Hans Sloane, R. S. Secr' |