OXFORD AND ST. ALBAN’S, 147 CHAPTER X LONDON: JOHN LETTOU--WILLIAM DE MACHLINIA--RICHARD PYNSON, 160 CHAPTER XI THE SPREAD OF THE ART IN GREAT BRITAIN, 174 CHAPTER XII THE STUDY OF BOOKBINDING, 185 CHAPTER XIII THE COLLECTING AND DESCRIBING OF EARLY PRINTED BOOKS, 201 INDEX OF PRINTERS AND PLACES, 213 Illustrations PAGE FROM THE CANON OF THE MASS PRINTED BY SCHOEFFER ABOUT 1458 (_much reduced_), _Frontispiece_ (From the unique copy in the Bodleian.) PLATE PAGE I. PAGE 3 OF THE ‘MIRABILIA ROMÆ,’ 11 (From the copy in the British Museum.) II. THE CATALOGUE ISSUED BY SCHOEFFER ABOUT 1469 (_reduced_), 31 (Reproduced from a full-sized facsimile of the original in the Munich Library, published in the _Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen_.) III. PAGE 3 OF THE ‘LIBER EPISTOLARUM’ OF GASPARINUS BARZIZIUS, the first book printed at Paris, 83 (From the copy in the British Museum.) IV. FRAGMENT OF AN EDITION OF THE ‘DOCTRINALE’ OF ALEXANDER GALLUS, one of the so-called ‘Costeriana,’ 98 (Reduced from the copy in the British Museum.) V. PAGE OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE ‘SARUM BREVIARY,’ 127 (Printed at Cologne about 1475.) VI. PART OF A PAGE FROM THE ‘GOLDEN LEGEND,’ 144 (Printed by Julian Notary in 1503. From the copy in the British Museum.) VII. FIRST PAGE OF THE ‘EXCITATIO AD ELEMOSINAM FACIENDAM,’ 152 (Printed at Oxford about 1485. From the unique copy in the British Museum.) VIII. PAGE OF THE ‘HORÆ AD USUM SARUM,’ 163 (Printed at London by Machlinia. From the fragment in the University Library, Cambridge.) IX. LAST PAGE OF THE ‘FESTUM NOMINIS JESU,’ 167 (Printed at London by Pynson about 1493. From the unique copy in the British Museum.) X. STAMPED BINDING WITH THE DEVICE OF PYNSON, 193 (From the original in the British Museum.) EARLY PRINTED BOOKS. CHAPTER I. STEPS TOWARDS THE INVENTION.