The Original and Growth of Printing

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.