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Order Nr. 34594 THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD OF BOOKS, 1450 TO 1470: A CHRONOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE...

THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD OF BOOKS, 1450 TO 1470: A CHRONOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE TEXTS CHOSEN FOR PRINTING DURING THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS OF THE PRINTING ART.

WITH SYNOPSIS OF THE GUTENBERG DOCUMENTS
New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1972. 7 x 9.5 inches. hardcover. 140 pages. WITH SYNOPSIS OF THE GUTENBERG DOCUMENTS. According to the Preface, for a hundred years or more, the bibliographical scholars of the world have sought to identify the man of genius who, in the mid-fifteenth century, changed the course of civilization by introducing the art of printing into the Western World. Our knowledge of Gutenberg and his claim rests upon two..... READ MORE

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PRELIMINARY SECTIONS
   Preface                                                                  ix
   Methodology                                                              xv
   Acknowledgments                                                         xix
   Abbreviations, Symbols, and Terms                                       xxi

BOOKS AND BROADSIDES, 1450 to 1470                                           1
   A Chronological Survey of the Texts chosen for Printing during the 
   First Twenty Years of the Printing Art

SUPPLEMENTARY SECTIONS Authors by Periods                                   59
   Commentators, Editors, and Translators                                   61
   Subject Analysis of Early Books and Broadsides                           63
   Typographical Analyses of Imprints before 1470:
      Early Imprints of Controversial Origin                                65
      Printers and Presses before 1470                                      65
      Printing Towns before 1470                                            66
   Undated Imprints currently unassigned, or re-assigned to 1470 or later   68

APPENDIXES
   The Gutenberg Documents: Notes on Documentary Sources relative to 
   Johann Gensfleisch zur Laden zu Gutenberg, c. 1399-1467/68
      Subject Analysis                                                      74
      Notes on the Manuscript Records, 1420-1468                            75
      Printed Statements, 1468-1499                                         89
   Undated Imprints assigned to The Netherlands                             97

INDEX                                                                      107