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MCGOVERN, MELVIN P. Specimen Pages of Korean Movable Types. 1966
PRINTING BEFORE GUTENBERG McGOVERN, MELVIN P. Specimen Pages of Korean Movable Types. Frontispiece; 22 mounted specimen leaves, comprising 3 originals from 18th- and 19th-century books, and 19 facsimiles reproduced from books printed in the 15th-19th centuries. Folio, original cloth-backed patterned boards; publisher''s cloth slipcase. Jacob L. Chernofsky bookplate. Los Angeles: Dawson''s Book Shop, 1966
- Notes: first edition of a study of the history of printing in Korea, where movable wood type was in use by the end of the 14th century, and movable metal type by the beginning of the 15th century. one of 205 numbered copies, of an edition of 300.
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