Early Printed Books

by E. Gordon Duff

March 1893.

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CONTENTS

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CHAPTER I
Steps towards the Invention,	[1]
CHAPTER II
The Invention of Printing,	[21]
CHAPTER III
Spread of Printing in Germany,	[39]
CHAPTER IV
Italy,	[59]
CHAPTER V
France,	[78]
CHAPTER VI
The Low Countries,	[95]
CHAPTER VII
Spain and Portugal—Denmark and Sweden,	[113]
CHAPTER VIII
Westminster: Caxton—Wynkyn de Worde—Julian Notary,	[125]
CHAPTER IX
Oxford and St. Alban’s,	[147]
CHAPTER X
London: John Lettou—William de Machlinia—Richard Pynson,	[160]
CHAPTER XI
The Spread of the Art in Great Britain,	[174]
CHAPTER XII
The Study of Bookbinding,	[185]
CHAPTER XIII
The Collecting and Describing of Early Printed Books,	[201]
Index of Printers and Places,	[213]

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Illustrations

	Page from the Canon of the Mass printed by Schoeffer about 1458 (much reduced), (From the unique copy in the Bodleian.)	[Frontispiece]
PLATE		PAGE
I.	Page 3 of the ‘Mirabilia Romæ,’ (From the copy in the British Museum.)	[11]
II.	The Catalogue issued by Schoeffer about 1469 (reduced), (Reproduced from a full-sized facsimile of the original in the Munich Library, published in the Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen.)	[31]
III.	Page 3 of the ‘Liber Epistolarum’ of Gasparinus Barzizius, the first book printed at Paris, (From the copy in the British Museum.)	[83]
IV.	Fragment of an edition of the ‘Doctrinale’ of Alexander Gallus, one of the so-called ‘Costeriana,’ (Reduced from the copy in the British Museum.)	[98]
V.	Page of the first edition of the ‘Sarum Breviary,’ (Printed at Cologne about 1475.)	[127]
VI.	Part of a page from the ‘Golden Legend,’ (Printed by Julian Notary in 1503. From the copy in the British Museum.)	[144]
VII.	First page of the ‘Excitatio ad Elemosinam Faciendam,’ (Printed at Oxford about 1485. From the unique copy in the British Museum.)	[152]
VIII.	Page of the ‘Horæ ad Usum Sarum,’ (Printed at London by Machlinia. From the fragment in the University Library, Cambridge.)	[163]
IX.	Last page of the ‘Festum Nominis Jesu,’ (Printed at London by Pynson about 1493. From the unique copy in the British Museum.)	[167]
X.	Stamped Binding with the Device of Pynson, (From the original in the British Museum.)	[193]

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