The English provincial printers, stationers and bookbinders to 1557 — John Shaqi
The English provincial printers, stationers and bookbinders to 1557Duff, E. Gordon (Edward Gordon)
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The English provincial printers, stationers and bookbinders to 1557
Duff, E. Gordon (Edward Gordon)
Book industries and trade -- Great Britain; Printing -- Great Britain -- History
In 1480 the printer issued his first dated book, the _Rhetorica Nova_
of Laurentius de Saona, and in this the influence of another press
can be clearly traced. The printer had discarded his first fount and
obtained a new one with a strong superficial resemblance to Caxton’s
Type No. 2*, the very type which Caxton had used to print his edition
of the same book. There is one curious point about this book which is
rarely met with, it is partly a quarto and partly an octavo; that is,
it is partly made up from large sheets of paper folded three times, and
partly from small sheets folded twice. A somewhat similar example may
be found in the _Chronicles_ printed by Machlinia, which is a folio,
with a few pages quarto. This is the most common of the Latin books
issued by the St Alban’s printer, for at least five copies are known,
one of which is in the University Library.
The other book which the printer issued in 1480 is printed in
another new type, quite the ugliest and most confusing of English
fifteenth-century types, and full of bewildering contractions. It is
an edition of the _Liber modorum significandi_ of Albertus, and the
only known copy, which had belonged to Tutet and Wodhull, is now in the
Bibliothèque Nationale. Three more books were printed in this type,
Joannes Canonicus on the _Physica_ of Aristotle, Antonius Andreæ on
the _Logica_, and the _Exempla Sacræ Scripturæ_. The first of these is
a folio printed in double columns, and two copies are known, one in
the Bodleian, and the other in the library of York Minster, while a
number of odd leaves are in the library of Clare College, and a few at
Peterhouse.
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