The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time /
By Henri Bouchot. With a treatise on the art of collecting and describing early printed books, and a Latin-English and English-Latin topographical index of the earliest printing places. Edited by H. Grevel. Containing one hundred and seventy-two fac-similes of early typography, book-illustrations, printer' marks, bindings, numerous borders, initials, head and tail pieces, and a frontispiece.

Description

Main Author: Bouchot, Henri, 1849-1906.
Related Names: Einsle, Anton, 1848-1897.
Grevel, H.
Bigmore, E. C. (Edward Clements), 1838?-1899.
Language(s): English ; French
Published: London : H. Grevel & co., 1890.
Subjects: Cataloging of incunabula.
Bookbinding > Bookbinding / History.
Printing > Printing / History.
Books.
Note: "The art of describing and cataloging incunabula (p. [322]-351) is a translation of Die incunabel-bibliographie, von A. Einsle, Wien, 1888.
First English translation by E. C. Bigmore, 1887, has title: The printed book; its history, illustration and adornment.
Physical Description: xv, 383 p. : illus. ; 27 cm
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