From Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
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Cloth, gilt cover-title and device, 8vo, xii, 219 pp, 11 plates. Aims to give a short account of the introduction of printing into the principal countries and towns of Europe, confining the treatment so far as possible to facts rather than theories, and drawing attention to more out of the way information rather than regurgitating previously published accounts. Contents: I Steps Towards the Invention; II The Invention of Printing; III Spread of Printing in Germany; IV Italy; V France; VI The Low Countries; VII Spain and Portugal - Denmark and Sweden; VIII Westminster: Caxton - Wynkyn de Worde - Julian Notary; IX Oxford and St. Alban's; X London: John Lettou - William de Machlinia - Richard Pynson; XI The Spread of the Art in Great Britain; XII The Study of Bookbinding; XIII The Collecting and Describing of Early Printed Books; Index of Printers and Places. Armorial bookplate of W. G. Lacy and later booklabel of the bibliophile A R A Hobson on front pastedown endpaper, head of spine worn, covers rubbed and slightly faded, tissue-guard browned, otherwise Good. Seller Inventory # ABE-50980
Bibliographic Details
Title: Early Printed Books.
Publisher: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner, London, first edition, 1893
Publication Date: 1893
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
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