XIII. Early Printing in Ireland 138 XIV. Book Bindings 144 XV. How a Modern Book is Produced 159 Postscript 164 Index 166 ILLUSTRATIONS Early Printers at Work Frontispiece PAGE Page from the Book of Kells 38 Part of Page from the Book of Kells 39 Page from the Lindisfarne Gospels 44 Page from the Biblia Pauperum 76 Type of the Mentz Indulgence 95 Page from the Mazarin Bible 98 Type of the Mazarin Bible 99 Type of the Subiaco Lactantius 111 Type of the Aldine Virgil, 1501 114 Type of Caxton's Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, Westminster, 1477 123 Boys Learning Grammar 125 Caxton's Device 127 Type of Wynkyn de Worde's Higden's Polychronicon, London, 1495 129 Myllar's Device 132 Title Page of O'Kearney's Irish Alphabet and Catechism 140 Upper Cover of Melissenda's Psalter 149 THE STORY OF BOOKS CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY