Border-Pieces used by English Printers before 1641.

McKerrow, R.B.

Published by Bibliographical Society, London, reprinted from the Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 1924, 1924

About this Item

Small edition of perhaps 20 - 30 copies. Printed wrappers, small 4to, 23 cm, 37 pp. Uncommon separate printing: from 1894 twenty copies of any paper printed in the Transactions were presented to the writer, and presumably a few more were run off. From the text: "In the title of this paper as given on the card of the Society's meetings its subject was described as border-pieces', an expression the meaning of which is perhaps somewhat vague. Had I been sure that I should be understood I should have preferred to call the paper English compartments to 1640' using compartments ' in the somewhat odd sense which seems to have been introduced by Ames in his Typo graphical Antiquities of 1749, and which is now, I think, definitely recognized by most bibliographers. as meaning any ornamental frame for a printed page, whether of one piece or of several belonging together, which does not consist merely of a number of repetitions of the same design. Thus a border of type ornaments is not a compartment, nor is a border made up of small separate woodcuts which have nothing in their design to link them together, but practically any other frame is a compartment." Scarce - no copy on JISC Discover. Yapp edges slightly browned and chipped, otherwise a Very Good unopened copy. Seller Inventory # ABE-51488

Bibliographic Details

Title: Border-Pieces used by English Printers ...

Publisher: Bibliographical Society, London, reprinted from the Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 1924

Publication Date: 1924

Binding: Soft cover