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  <dc:title>Paper, 'An essay of the invention of printing' by John Bagford</dc:title>
  <dc: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'</dc:description>
  <dc:date>[1703]</dc:date>
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