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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.

Title
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.
Author
Bouchot, Henri, 1849-1906
Publication
London : H. Grevel & Co., 1890.

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Additional Authors
  • Bigmore, E. C. (Edward Clements), 1838?-1899
  • Grevel, H.
  • Einsle, Anton, 1848-1897
Description
xv, 383 pages : illustrations; 27 cm
Uniform Title
Livre. English
Alternative Title
Livre.
Subject
  • Books
  • Printing > History
  • Bookbinding > History
  • Cataloging of incunabula
  • Illustration of books > History
  • Printing > history
  • Bookbinding > history
  • Incunabula as Topic
  • Cataloging > history
  • Livres
  • Imprimerie > Histoire
  • Catalogage > Incunables
  • Illustration des livres > Histoire
  • books
  • Bookbinding
  • Illustration of books
  • Printing
  • Books
  • Printing > History
  • Bookbinding > History
  • Cataloging of incunabula
Genre/Form
  • Association copies (Provenance)
  • History
Note
  • First English translation by E.C. Bigmore, 1887, has title: The printed book; its history, illustration and adornment.
  • "The art of describing and cataloging incunabula (p. [322]-351) is a translation of Die Incunabel-Bibliographie, von A. Einsle, Wien, 1888
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also issued online.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
LCCN
f 01002025
OCLC
  • 44661448
  • SCSB-10699738
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library