The Printed BookUniversity Press, 1916 - 154 pagina's |
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Aldus appearance art of printing artist Basel beautiful Bible binder binding block block-books book illustration book printed Bookbinding borders called Cambridge Canterbury Tales Caslon letter Caxton centre cheap Christopher Plantin Colard Mansion coloured covered decoration device early printed books edges edition eighteenth century Elzevir England English books favour fifteenth folded folio followed founts French Fust gold Gutenberg head-lines illustrated books important impression inches initial letters invention issued John large number leaf leather leaves Library lines literature Mainz manuscript metal engraving method Modern Face movable type novel number of copies octavo paper Paris pictorial Plantin plates popular printer printing press produced published Pynson quarto revival Schoeffer sheet shewn shews sixteenth century small ornaments sometimes surface Thomas Berthelet typography Ulrich Zell usually vellum volumes watermark William Caxton wood engraving woodcuts words Wynkyn de Worde
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Pagina 21 - I haue practysed and lerned at my grete charge and dispense to ordeyne this said book in prynte after the maner and forme as ye may here see...
Pagina 142 - To open a new book, hold the book with its back on a smooth or covered table ; let the front board down, then the other, holding the leaves in one hand while you open a few leaves at the back, then a few at the front, and so on, alternately opening back and front, gently pressing open the sections till you reach the center of the volume. Do this two or three times, and you will obtain the best results. Open the volume violently or carelessly in any one place and you will likely break the back and...
Pagina 21 - And for as moche as in the wrytyng of the same my penne is worn, myn hande wery and not stedfast, myn eyen dimmed with overmoche lokyng on the whit paper, and my corage not so prone and redy to laboure as hit hath ben, and that age crepeth on me dayly and febleth all the bodye...
Pagina 86 - Polytopical" books is a new term, p. 538. On p. 401 by far too much importance is given to scrapbooks or cuttings from newspapers. These criticisms are made with a view of getting a better index in future, but they illustrate the saying on p. 729, that " The index of a book should be made by the author. Anybody can do the rest of it.
Pagina 127 - Testament in latyne and a psalter englisshe & latyne bounde backe to backe in white leather gorgiously gilted on the Leather : the bookes came to ijs ; the byndying and arabaske drawyng in golde on the transfile, iiijs.
Pagina 18 - But, unlike his master, de Worde was a mere printer and showed no trace of literary talent. His finest book, an English version of the De proprietatibus rerum of Bartholomaeus Anglicus (about 1496), was the first book to be printed on paper made in England. De Worde died about the beginning of the year 1535. During his long career he is known to have printed between seven and eight hundred books, but many of these were short popular works and a large number were merely new editions.
Pagina 8 - Although this art was invented at Mainz, as far as regards the manner in which it is now commonly used, yet the first prefiguration (Vurbyldung) was invented in Holland from the Donatuses which were printed there before that time. And from and out of these the aforesaid art took its beginning, and was invented in a manner much more masterly and subtler than this, and the longer it lasted the more full of art it became.
Pagina 12 - Schoeffer, now working together, brought out the famous Psalter, the first printed book to contain the names of its printers and the date of printing. The execution of this beautiful book demonstrates that the printers had by this time attained considerable technical excellence*. Their art had advanced beyond the experimental stage, and the business soon developed into a substantial commercial undertaking. The partnership lasted for another ten years, after which Schoeffer continued the press alone...
Pagina 98 - Shephardes of 1506, though, it may be noted, the cuts 7—2 in both are of French origin. The woodcuts, upwards of one hundred, in Barclay's English version of the Ship of Fools, which Pynson printed in 1509, are copies of those in the original Basel edition of 1494 ; sixty years later they were resuscitated for the edition which John Cawood published in 1570. In the sixteenth century the talents of the foremost (artists found expression in the service of the printed book, and the illustrations of...