PRINTING & THE BOOK IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND by Heilbronner, Walter L - 1967

Charlottesville, Virginia, USA: University Press of Virginia, 1967. BD6 - A tight, clean, sound copy with minor overall shelf wear primarily in the form of some very, very light bumping at the bottom left corner plus there are the usual library labels, stamps, and marks on the front cover, the top, bottom, and right outside paper edges (marked out with large green marker), front and back free endpapers, and the first page of the preface plus there are large patches of glue staining onthe back free and fixed endpapers from a library label and pocket. A bibliography with descriptive annotations and commentaries of scholarly works as well as pertinent semitechnical and popular literature dealing with the subject of 15th century English printing and printers. Indexed, 105p.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1967. bent and crunched textblock at the base of the gutter; bumped corner, otherwise binding and textblock is clean and tight; lightly shelf worn; 105pp.; including index. . Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.

Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1967. 105 pages. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Vg- w/slight Dulling of Color/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. Hard Cover.

Very Good. 1967. Red cloth covered boards with gold titles; minimal wear; faint spotting to edges; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; no jacket. Interior is clean and unmarked; 105 pages.

Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1967. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 81pp+ index. Gilt a bit dulled, else a very good hardback bound in publisher's red boards and issued without a jacket.

Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1967. First edition. Cloth. A fine copy.. xiv, 105 pp. A bibliographical survey.

Charlottesville, Virginia: Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, the University Press of Virginia, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine survey of the book trade prior to and between the invention of printing to 1500. Printing came relatively late to England. In 1485, Peter Actors was appointed King's Stationer, but no King's Printer was named, and thus book trading grew very slowly, being dominated by French and Germans. Only in 1554, when the English Parliament limited the rights of foreigners engaged in the book trade, and only when England tried to restrict the importation of foreign books as well, did the book trade take off in England. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, bright red cloth over boards, gilt lettering over front board and spine, generally clean, lightly toned edges of endpapers, minimal rubbing to extremities. xiv [2], 4-105 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the… Read More

Charlottesville: Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia By the University Press of Virginia, 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 105pp. Red cloth gilt. Gilt a trifle dull, else very near fine.

Univesity of Virginia, 1967. Book. Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, red cloth lettered gilt, no jacket. An institutional ex-library copy, tightly bound, the body of text unmarked, xiv + 105pp.