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The British Library. 1999. First Edition, xviii,650pp., frontis., illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. out of print. Scholars from nine countries range widely over the field of fifteenth-century printed books, writing on such topics as the shape of early type, authorship, ownership and the building up of collections of incunabula, the binding and decoration of books from the presses of England, Low Countries and Italy, the earliest trade in printed books and the vicissitudes of the Gutenberg Bible in the sale rooms. |
