Beschreibung:
Published for the first time with The King's Grant of Privilege for Sole Printing Common-Law-Books Defended and The Vindication of Richard Atkyns Esquire, with introduction, notes and index. They concern his life, the history of printing in England, the English Civil War, the collapse in both his fortune and his marriage. His eyewitness accounts of battles are pungent with the smell of gun powder.
Introduction v: The Original and Growth of Printing v; The King's Grant of Privilege viii; The Vindication of Richard Atkyns viii. The Original and Growth of Printing 1; The King's Grant of Privilege 37; The Vindication of Richard Atkyns Esquire 51; Notes 129; Bibliography 140; Index 143