Download or read book The Old Book Collector's Miscellany, Or a Collection of Readable Reprints of Literary Rarities, Vol. 1 written by Charles Hindley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Old Book Collector's Miscellany, or a Collection of Readable Reprints of Literary Rarities, Vol. 1: Illustrative of the History, Literature, Manners and Biography of the English Nation During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries The printer Of it was John Kynge, who pub lished eight known works with dates, extending from 1550 to 1561, and six works without dates, besides others mentioned in the Stationers' Regis ters, which have not come down to our time: many, if not most Of these, were Of a comic kind, calculated to be popular, and it is not surprising that, in passing from hand to hand among careless readers, not a few have been entirely lost, or have only reached us from the presses Of later typographers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.