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The space left in the sixth line from the foot stands for the words _ab ostentatione_, which the printer apparently could not read in his manuscript. The word _vacat_ at the end was inserted to show that the space in the last line was accidental and that nothing had been omitted.
After the Restoration, printing and the book trade generally in England became definitely modern in their character, and the printer practically disappears from view, his work,...
16. CHAPTER XVThe good bookman should have no love for "plates," and to do them justice bookmen have shown commendable fortitude in resisting their attractions, great as these often are. As a...
14. CHAPTER XIIIDuring the fifteenth century presses were set up in more than fifty places in Germany, in more than seventy in Italy, in nearly forty in France, in more than twenty in the Nethe...
6. CHAPTER VIn August, 1462, the struggle between its rival Archbishops led to Mainz being sacked. Very little more printing was done there until 1465, and we need not doubt the tradition t...
12. CHAPTER XIAs we have already said, the charm of the woodcut pictures in incunabula lies in their simplicity, in their rude story-telling power, often very forcible and direct, in the vali...
8. CHAPTER VIIThe natural method of illustrating a book printed with type is by means of designs cut in relief, which can be locked up in the forme with the type, so that text and illustratio...
10. CHAPTER IXAlthough interrupted by the death of its veteran author, Claudin's magnificent _Histoire de l'imprimerie en France_, in the three volumes which he lived to complete, made it for...
13. CHAPTER XIISomething has already been written about the earliest English books on the scale to which they are entitled in a rapid survey of European incunabula. We may now consider them mo...
9. CHAPTER VIIIAs a frontispiece to this chapter (Plate XIII) we give a page from the 1487 edition of the _Devote meditatione sopra la Passione del Nostro Signore_, printed at Venice by "Jeron...
2. CHAPTER IFrom the stray notes which have come down to us about the bibliophiles of the later Roman Empire it is evident that book-collecting in those days had at least some modern featur...
15. CHAPTER XIVA few illuminated manuscripts of English workmanship and a few with illustrations in outline have come down to us from the fifteenth century, but amid the weary wars with France...
7. CHAPTER VIOne great cause of changes of fashion in book-collecting is that after any particular class of book has been hotly competed for by one generation of book-lovers, all the best pr...
5. CHAPTER IVNo contrast could be much greater than that between the so-called "Costeriana" and the incunabula printed at Mainz. Annually as a small boy I used to be taken to the Crystal Pal...
11. CHAPTER XOne of the chief charms of the books of the fifteenth century is that they are so unlike those of our own day. In the first year of its successor a great step was taken towards...
4. CHAPTER IIIUp to the year 1465 only one firm of printers evinced any appreciation of the uses of advertisement. In 1457 Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer, of Mainz, set their names at the en...
3. CHAPTER IIThe collector of the time of George III, whose heart was set on Typographical Antiquities, and who was ambitious enough to wish to begin at the beginning, must have hungered aft...
1. CHAPTER I. COLLECTORS AND COLLECTING 1The space left in the sixth line from the foot stands for the words _ab ostentatione_, which the printer apparently could not read in his manuscript. The word _vacat_ at the end...