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Qu’est-ce qu’un livre ancien ? Qui sont ses ennemis ? A-t-il encore des lecteurs ? Comment et par qui a-t-il été fabriqué, acheté, lu (ou non), collectionné, conservé ou même falsifié ? Cet abécédaire, conçu comme une initiation joyeuse aux principales facettes du livre ancien, se propose de répondre à ces questions sur un mode ludique. À travers des entrées décalées, il fait voyager le lecteur de l’« amour » au « z » gothique zigzagant parmi les caractères romains, en passant par la « coquille », le « quatre », la « truie » ou encore « (la salle) Y » de la Bibliothèque nationale de France. -- Quatrième de couverture.

Livres anciens --- Livres anciens. --- Early printed books.

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When this work was published, its original author had been dead for fifty years. As the title page explains, the work of Joseph Ames (1687-1759) was considerably augmented by William Herbert (1718-95), and then 'greatly enlarged, with copious notes, and illustrated with appropriate engravings' by Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847), several of whose other works are also reissued in this series. Ames' history of printing, based on his own collection, was published in 1749, as an aid to booksellers in identifying old works (and modern forgeries). Herbert, a printseller and bibliophile, acquired Ames' own interleaved copy of the work and intended to enlarge it, but died having completed only three of six proposed volumes. His working copies then passed to Dibdin, who eventually published this four-volume edition between 1810 and 1819. Volume 2 considers the lives and work of printers including Wynken de Worde and Richard Pynson.

Printing --- Printers --- Incunabula --- Early printed books --- History. --- Great Britain --- Bibliography --- Books --- Cradle books (Early printed books) --- Incunables

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When this work was published, its original author had been dead for fifty years. As the title page explains, the work of Joseph Ames (1687-1759) was considerably augmented by William Herbert (1718-95), and then 'greatly enlarged, with copious notes, and illustrated with appropriate engravings' by Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847), several of whose other works are also reissued in this series. Ames' history of printing, based on his own collection, was published in 1749, as an aid to booksellers in identifying old works (and modern forgeries). Herbert, a printseller and bibliophile, acquired Ames' own interleaved copy of the work and intended to enlarge it, but died having completed only three of six proposed volumes. His working copies then passed to Dibdin, who eventually published this four-volume edition between 1810 and 1819. Volume 3 considers the lives and work of printers from William Faques to Nicholas Bourman.

Printing --- Printers --- Incunabula --- Early printed books --- History. --- Great Britain --- Bibliography --- Books --- Cradle books (Early printed books) --- Incunables

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The Royal Library of the Monastery of El Escorial keeps thousands of manuscripts on various subjects. This work deals with the study of an approximate dozen of medieval and modern Castilian manuscripts of legal content that, presumably, contain some compilation projects of the 16th century promoted by the crown. Many were the voices that during the aforementioned century demanded the kings the elaboration of a legal compilation that would amend the errors that Alonso Díaz de Montalvo, advisor to the Catholic Monarchs, had made in their compilation. And many are the testimonies that indicate that this reparative work began, was postponed and was resumed during the first years of the modern age. It is in these Escurialense manuscripts where the author has searched for those mentioned compilation projects, in them the intervention of very important jurists of the time like Lorenzo Gálindez de Carvajal, Ponce de León or Francisco de Espinosa can be glimpsed.

Law --- Derecho --- Early printed books. --- Libros antiguos. --- Bibliography --- Books --- Legal history --- History. --- Historia. --- Early printed books --- History and criticism --- Monasterio de El Escorial. --- Códices

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This two-volume work on the life and activities of the printer William Caxton, a vital source for bibliographers, was written by another printer, William Blades, and published in 1861-3. Blades (1824-90), apprenticed into the family firm, developed a great interest in the history of his trade, collecting an extensive library of antiquarian books, and becoming an expert on early typefaces. He brings to his study of Caxton (which follows in the wake of works on incunabula by Ames, Herbert and Dibdin) his own practical experience of the craft of printing, largely unchanged, except for the addition of machine power, since Caxton's day. He examined more than 450 Caxton printings, in Britain, France and the Low Countries, while preparing the work. Volume 2 offers an essay on Caxton's working practices and a bibliographical account of every book printed by him then known to have survived.

Printers --- Printing --- Incunabula --- History --- Origin and antecedents. --- Caxton, William, --- Early printed books --- Cradle books (Early printed books) --- Incunables --- Books --- Printing, Practical --- Typography --- Graphic arts