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. Ed. by H. GRevel. Containing one hundred and seventy-two fac-similes of early typography, book-illustrations, printers' marks, bindings, numerous borders, initials, head and tail pieces, and a frontispiece.

  • Bouchot, Henri, 1849-1906.
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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. Ed. by H. GRevel. Containing one hundred and seventy-two fac-similes of early typography, book-illustrations, printers' marks, bindings, numerous borders, initials, head and tail pieces, and a frontispiece. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1890

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xv, 383 pages : including frontispiece, illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 26 cm

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First English translation by E.C. Bigmore, 1887, has title: The printed book; its history, illustration and adornment
"The art of describing and cataloguing incunabula" (p. [322]-351) is a translation of Die incunabel-bibliographie, von A. Einsle, Wien, 1888

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