The English Provincial Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders to 1557

The English Provincial Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders to 1557
Author: Edward Gordon Duff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1912
Genre: Book industries and trade
ISBN:

This volume provides a historical study of provincial bookbinding. Gordon Duff attempts to re-contextualise the development of provincial printing as a national process, in which a number of different towns were involved.

Robert Estienne, Royal Printer

Robert Estienne, Royal Printer
Author: Elizabeth Armstrong
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2011-04-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0521170664

This book was originally published in 1954. Mrs Armstrong gives a full-length historical study of an important and admirable figure of Robert Estienne. Through his scholarly work and his ideals of artistry and craftsmanship of printing, he also brought understanding to the dissemination of a culture.