IV.—The Book-Trade in the Manuscript Period.

Italy.—Books in Spain.—The Manuscript Trade in France.—Manuscript Dealers in Germany.

PART II.—THE EARLIER PRINTED BOOKS.

I.—The Renaissance as the Forerunner of the Printing-Press.

II.—The Invention of Printing and the Work of the First Printers of Holland and Germany.

III.—The Printer-Publishers of Italy.

Volume II. 1500-1709. (Ready September, 1896.)

IV.—The Printer-Publishers of France.

V.—The Later Estiennes and Casaubon.

VI.—Caxton and the Introduction of Printing into England.