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juiy is, 1887 The. Publishers' Circular ...
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THE PRINTED BOOKS A compact volume of 30...
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Juiy Is, 1887 The. Publishers' Circular ...
juiy is , 1887 The . Publishers' Circular 763
The Printed Books A Compact Volume Of 30...
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year 1462 . In this is found condensed acincluding counts \ of tho the earliest Koster stages legend of the printing Gutenberg % A 1 / 7 XX hSVJX art ,
< the > f the »« ' Catholicon iuig dispersion U 11 O , JLVUOtCl 7 of the the Mayence Mayence ICgUXlU , , Bibl printers V ^ e , causes & c . , The second chapter is full of interest , , and
-i . — ( uy * Henri 'Wte Printed Bouchot Book . : Translated its Uistoi-y , Illustration and enlarge , and d by Adornment Edward 0 . . Biuore
"' , London : JH . » revel & Oo . ) J ^ ^ , . .. _ £ _
speaks of matters concerning which there is less »¦ —¦ uncertainty * aj && for the vaa books iv » r and «^ v ^ printers Jfcfc % j of \
— — second «» w > *^ «^«> generation w ... v * j , Mm ^ -r ^ m , as ^ it v- ^ - is - * . * - »» here aa- « . called r- " * * -- w ^^ x , are SM . , more familiar . Caxton is spoken of in this
chapter ; also the introduction of printii & g into Paris , when an opportunity is taken to say something of the first French printers the
parts that Italy , Germany , and the ; Low Countries played in the forward movement are also described . Chapter IIIwhich is of
equal interest , brings the story ., up to the year vear 1600 1600 . and and closes r » lr » sp > H b Vvw a rp reswmS . sii . vn . £ of r > f the +. " hp « r .-rr » -
gress made , in England y some remarks pro on Coverdale ' s Biblft- anrl , afinnnntof + Via ivb ¦ ¦» ¦ ¦
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IV ., and , as may be supposed , considerable amount
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his ability directed . The illustration
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booksellers of the Palace ¦ ¦ under Louis
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books ; " arid if the inscriptions i ^ iven by Bosse be credited , the Palace dealer offered his books with singular eclecticism : Boccaccio BB- Aretin -BV
W BBI W * Bt P ^^ ^ t ^ B fttfk ~ B —» BiB ^ BWB ^ ~ b ^ " ^^ * »_^ ^ B * ¦ " ^ B- ^ b" bW VB * B . BB Bp > Bi - ~*^ ^* — "" f " ^ - BB - ~~ - , B- BBBp B B —~ B ^ BB BB BB , « the Astree of D'Urfe \ the Bible , and Macchiavelli hJfc . . . . What was tBf PkB commonl bB done B - Bp BB -BB- then B- B . BBi is B
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and anrl--tTiosfi those ot of the th f * Palaoe Palace were were attractive attractive . ' A couple of chapters are devoted to books
in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , - and the pages of these chapters are particu-
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 15, 1887, page 763, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15071887/page/5/
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