Incunabula and Their Readers
Incunabula and Their Readers

Author: Kristian Jensen

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 320

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The contributions to this volume address important issues about books and their users in the 15th century. A unifying theme is the complex relationships between producers - be they authors, printers or decorators - the economic conditions of book distribution, and the requirements of readers or other users of books. Two contributions focus on technical aspects of the production of books, essential for our understanding of how texts met their readers. Such engaged and informed openness towards other disciplines is necessary for students of books to understand why the European invention of printing was successful - of why books became the first successful mechanically mass-produced marketable product.

Disbound and Dispersed
Disbound and Dispersed

Author: Christopher De Hamel

Publisher: Oak Knoll Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 168

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Catalog of an exhibition organized by The Caxton Club. Venues: The Newberry Library, Chicago, April 16-July 16, 2005; The San Francisco Public Library, November 5-December 31, 2005; Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., January 18-March 19, 2006; The Lilly Library, Bloomington, Indiana University, April 3-May 26, 2006.

First Supplement to James E. Walsh's Catalogue of the Fifteenth-century Printed Books in the Harvard University Library
First Supplement to James E. Walsh's Catalogue of the Fifteenth-century Printed Books in the Harvard University Library

Author: Harvard University. Library

Publisher: Houghton Library

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 242

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Walsh's pioneering catalogue of the Harvard collection of 15th-century printed books was published in five volumes. The First Supplement describes 202 new incunabula at Harvard: 67 complete or nearly complete copies and 135 single leaves or fragments, representing a total of 173 editions, including 110 not in Walsh's original five volumes.