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Duff, Edward G. Printers, stationers, and bookbinders of Westminster and London from 1476 to 1535. *$1.50. Putnam.
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“In these lectures the first half-century of book-making in England is covered. The Westminster printers, Caxton, Wynken de Worde, and Notary; the London printers, Pynson, Lettou, and William de Machlinia; foreign printers and the books they made for the English market; the early English bookbinders—these are some of the subjects touched upon. The lectures are narrative in form, not technical, and are filled with interesting allusions and notes on old printers and their ways, old books, and old bindings.”—Nation.
“The Act of 1534 was passed, we may imagine, not (as was professed) for the protection of printing, but in the interest of the royal censorship of the press. The one may be defended and the other condemned with excellent reason, but to defend and condemn them on the grounds put forward by Mr. Duff seems to us a curious aberration in an otherwise very sane and scholarly book.”
| + + − | Acad. 72: 37. Ja. 12, ’07. 690w. |
“His knowledge of early English printing and bookbinding is probably unequalled, and his power of putting his material into an attractive and interesting form is very great. We congratulate booklovers on this important addition to their library.”
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“They are in the nature of outlines of that larger work on the history and development of printing in England which is yet to be written.”