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A: Marburg, Hessen, Germany

Johan Gottfried Zeidler Issues the Earliest Printed Technical Manual on Bookbinding

1708

In 1708 German Protestant theologian and writer Johann Gottfried Zeidler published Johann Gottfried Zeidlers Buchbinder-Philosophie oder Einleitung in die Buchbinder Kunst, darinnen die selbe aus dem Buch der natur und eigener Erfahrung Philosophisch abgehandelt wird, mit sonderbahren Anmerckungen Zweyer Wohlerfahrner Buchbinder und jegehöigen Kopffern. This work, issued with 5 plates, and 15 woodcuts in the text, and issued from Marburg, Germany, was the earliest technical manual on bookbinding. It included the earliest picture of a type holder for lettering.

Pollard, Early Bookbinding Manuals (1984) no. 16.

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