Unlocking potential with the best learning and research solutions

I want this title to be available as an eBook

The Life and Typography of William Caxton, England's First Printer
With Evidence of his Typographical Connection with Colard Mansion, the Printer at Bruges
2 Volume Set

Part of Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries

Author: William Blades

Date Published: April 2014
availability: Available
format: Multiple copy pack
isbn: 9781108073578

Rate & review

Multiple copy pack

Add to wishlist

Looking for an inspection copy?

This title is not currently available for inspection. However, if you are interested in the title for your course we can consider offering an inspection copy. To register your interest please contact asiamktg@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching.

Description

Contents

Resources

Courses

About the Authors

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 1 deals with Caxton's life, and Volume 2 offers an essay on Caxton's working practices and bibliographical details of all his books then known to exist.

Customer reviews

Not yet reviewed
Be the first to review

Log in to review

Review was not posted due to profanity
×

, create a review

(If you're not , sign out)

Please enter the right captcha value

Please enter a star rating.

Your review must be a minimum of 12 words.

How do you rate this item?

Reviews must contain at least 12 words about the product.

×

Product details
- Date Published: April 2014
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108073578
- length: 832 pages
- dimensions: 297 x 210 x 25 mm
- weight: 1.99kg
- contains: 11 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Volume 1: Preface
1. William Caxton, the mercer
2. The state of literature in the fifteenth century
3. Scribes and printers
4. The Bruges press
5. Who taught Caxton to print?
6. Caxton at Westminster
Authorities
The original writings of Caxton
Notes. Volume 2: Preface
Part I. Essay's on Caxton's Printing Office:
1. The master printer
2. The paper
3. The types
4. The compositor
5. Presses, pressmen, and printing ink
6. The bookbinder
7. The illuminator, the rubrisher, and the wood-engraver
8. Results
Part II. Of Books Printed with the Various Types of William Caxton
Addenda
Statistics and tables
Index.
Author
William Blades