Heavenly Craft
Heavenly Craft

Author: Library of Congress

Publisher: George Braziller Publishers

Published: 2004-11-02

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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This volume explores the evolution of the technique, composition and colouration of the woodcut beginning with the earliest publications. It features examples from Germany, Italy, France, Spain and The Netherlands.

William Caxton and Early Printing in England
William Caxton and Early Printing in England

Author: Lotte Hellinga

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780712350884

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This work takes a fresh approach to the first 60 years of printing in England by placing Caxton, his contemporaries and the later generations in the broad context of the history of book production between the middle of the 15th century and the Reformation.

Sephardic Book Art of the 15th Century
Sephardic Book Art of the 15th Century

Author: Luís Urbano Afonso

Publisher: Harvey Miller

Published: 2020-06-25

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 9781909400597

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The current volume presents ten different studies dealing with the final stages of Hebrew book art production in medieval Iberia. Ranging from the Farhi Codex, copied and illuminated in the late 14th century, to the Philadelphia Bible, copied and illuminated in Lisbon in 1496, this volume discusses a wide scope of topics related with the production, consumption and circulation of medieval decorated Hebrew manuscripts. Among the issues discussed in this volume we highlight the role played by three distinct artistic languages (Mudejar, Late Gothic and Renaissance) in the shapping of 15th century Sephardic illumination, the codicological specificity of some solutions in terms of layout and the relation between the layout of these manuscripts and Hebrew incunabula, the use of geometric decoration in scientific diagrams, or the afterlife of these manuscripts in Europe and Asia following the expulsion of the Jews from Iberia.

The Coming of the Book
The Coming of the Book

Author: Lucien Febvre

Publisher: Verso

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9781859841082

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Books, and the printed word more generally, are aspects of modern life that are all too often taken for granted. Yet the emergence of the book was a process of immense historical importance and heralded the dawning of the epoch of modernity. In this much praised history of that process, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, as well as the study of modes of consciousness, to root the development of the printed word in the changing social relations and ideological struggles of Western Europe.

Books for Sale
Books for Sale

Author: Robin Myers

Publisher: British Library

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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"Study of book history focused on the promotion and advertising of printed materials. Part of Publishing Pathways series. Collection of 8 essays that look at the advertising and marketing techniques of booksellers and publishers from the 15th to the 20th century in the western world"--Library of Congress.