The Fifteenth-Century Book

The Fifteenth-Century Book
Author: Curt F. Bühler
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2016-11-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 151280097X

The fifteenth century, one of the most curious and confused periods in recorded history, witnessed amazing developments in the printing industry and in the production of books. The present volume surveys the history of the manufacture of books throughout the fifteenth century, whether written by hand or produced by the press, and points out that both methods faced very similar problems and found almost identical solutions for them. Actually, the fifteenth century itself saw no material difference between manuscripts and incunabula (fifteenth-century printings), and regarded the latter simply as codices produced by "a new method of artificial writing." Curt F. Bühler discusses the impact of the epoch-making invention on the scribes as well as the attitudes that the contemporary book-lovers adopted toward the products of the press. The author also studies the types of men who were attracted to the new industry and the nature of the books that they believed to be readily vendible. In addition, certain familiar beliefs regarding the history of the early presses are challenged, and possible solutions are presented for the problems are still imperfectly understood. To illustrate the text, beautiful reproductions of illuminated manuscript pages, printed pages, colophons, woodcut illustration, and early typefaces have been included. The author's discussion of the decoration in books is not so much a study in the fine arts but, rather, an analysis of the types of volumes which lent themselves to decoration, and the various forms of such work.

The London Mercury

The London Mercury
Author: Sir John Collings Squire
Publisher:
Total Pages: 730
Release: 1921
Genre: English literature
ISBN:

John Gower in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books

John Gower in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
Author: Martha W. Driver
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2020
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1843845539

Essays considering the relationship between Gower's texts and the physical ways in which they were first manifested.

The Library

The Library
Author: Sir John Young Walker MacAlister
Publisher:
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1919
Genre: Bibliography
ISBN: