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Studies in Fifteenth-century Printing

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G. D. Painter's work on incunabula and early printing, from Gutenberg to Caxton and beyond, illuminates the history of rare European books. Classic studies on Gutenberg, Caxton, and Aldus Manutius ...
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The work of G. D. Painter on incunabula and early printing needs no introduction. Ranging from Gutenberg and Caxton to the first printing in France and Spain, the author has done much to illuminate the tangled history of the earliest editions of some of the rarest and most attractive books in European printing.

The articles reprinted here feature a number of studies which have become classics in their field. The author's investigation of Gutenberg's early work represents a major contribution to the age-old controversy surrounding the invention of printing. Similarly, his studies on Caxton have helped to clarify the date and development of the work of England's first printer. Also included is his celebrated essay on the most outstanding illustrated book from the fifteenth century, Aldus Manutius' edition of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.
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Price: £50.00
Pages: 222
Publisher: Pindar Press
Imprint: Pindar Press
Series: Studies in the History of Printing
Publication Date: 31 December 1984
ISBN: 9780907132158
Format: Hardcover
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HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, Book design and Bookbinding

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Preface

Gutenberg and the B36 group. A reconsideration

The true portrait of Johann Gutenberg

The untrue portraits of Johann Gutenberg

Gutenberg Quincentenary

Gutenberg et son oeuvre. A review

Gutenberg and the Master of the Playing Cards. A review

The Problem of the Missale speciale. A review

Netherlandish Blockbooks Quincentenary

A fifteenth-century horror comic. A review

A Horatian ghost

Michael Wenssler's devices and their predecessors

Jacques Moerart, publisher, not printer

The printer of Haneron

The first Greek printing in Belgium, with notes on the first Greek printing in Paris

Campbell's 'Annales de la Typographie néerlandaise au XVe Siècle'. A review

The first press at Barcelona

The Caxton Legenda at St. Mary's, Warwick

Caxton through the looking-glass. An enquiry into the offsets on a fragment of Caxton's Fifteen Oes, with a census of Caxton bindings

William Caxton and the 1482 Polychronicon

An unbelievable landmark. A review; Caxton's Progress

Incunabula in Cambridge University Library. A review

A list of books acquired by the British Museum from Chatsworth. Part I, Incunabula

The Fifteenth-Century Book. A review

The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of 1499. An introduction on the dream, the dreamer, the artist and the printer

Victor Scholderer - in memoriam

Additional Notes

Index