incunabula – David Shaw

Canterbury Cathedral Library’s oldest printed item (Bamberg, 1463)

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The Cathedral Library’s oldest printed item is a single leaf printed in a typeface attributed to Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of printing, which had been used to print an edition…

The One-pull press and printing on half-sheets

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One of the first things fledging historical bibliographers are taught is to identify formats: take a sheet of paper and fold it once to give folio format, fold again to…