Research Catalog

Title

Facsimiles from early printed books in the British museum. Selected pages from representative specimens of the early printed books of Germany, Italy, France, Holland and England, exhibited in the King's library.

Author

British Museum. Department of Printed Books.

Publication

[London] By order of the Trustees [W. Clowes & sons, printers] 1897.

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Details

Additional Authors

Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944.

Description

4 p.l., 8 p., 32 pl.; 29.5 cm.

Subjects

• Incunabula > Speciman pages
• Printing > History > Origin and antecedents
• Incunabula > Facsimiles

Note

• In portfolio.
• "Thirty-two plates, comprising thirty-six facsimiles, ranging in date from block-books executed probably about 1450 to the edition of Frezzi's Quatriregio printed at Florence in 1508."
• Selected and described by A. W. Pollard.

Call Number

*KF+ 1897 (British museum. Printed books, Dept. of. Facsimiles from early printed books in the British museum)

LCCN

03012637

OCLC

1294663

Author

British Museum. Department of Printed Books.

Title

Facsimiles from early printed books in the British museum. Selected pages from representative specimens of the early printed books of Germany, Italy, France, Holland and England, exhibited in the King's library.

Imprint

[London] By order of the Trustees [W. Clowes & sons, printers] 1897.

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Added Author

Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944.

Research Call Number

*KF+ 1897 (British museum. Printed books, Dept. of. Facsimiles from early printed books in the British museum)