A history of European printing
By: Colin Clair.
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 1976
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9780121748500
Subjects: Printing -- Europe -- History
Notes: Bibliography: p. 447-463.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The birth and infancy of printing; title: First fruits of the invention; title: The spread of printing in Germany; title: Printing crosses the Alps; title: Early printing in France; title: Fifteenth century printing in the Netherlands; title: Beyond the Pyrenees : early printing in the Iberian Peninsula; title: Switzerland's first printers; title: Printing comes to England; title: Early typography and technical innovations; title: Renaissance and Reformation; title: Germany in the sixteenth century; title: The Aldine Press and others; title: Printing in sixteenth century France; title: Swiss printing in the sixteenth century; title: Christopher Plantin and his times; title: Early Jewish printing; title: The first music printers; title: The book fairs; title: Early printing in Scandinavia; title: Evolution of printing in Central Europe; title: Eastern Europe : Russia and Poland; title: Successors of Caxton : sixteenth century printing in England; title: The seventeenth century; title: Around the Mediterranean; title: The eighteenth century; title: Dawn of the machine age; title: A chapter of inventions; title: Nineteenth century printing in Europe; title: Some private presses; title: Art nouveau (Jugendstil) and after; title: Modern trends in printing; title: Appendix 1 : Establishment of early presses in Europe : 15th century; title: Appendix 2 : When and where the first books were printed