A Short History of English Printing
by Henry R. Plomer
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About this eBook
- Author
- Plomer, Henry R. (Henry Robert), 1856-1928
- Title
- A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898
- Credits
- Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Taavi Kalju and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- Z: Bibliography, Library science
- Subject
- England -- Imprints
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 20393
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20393
- Release Date
- January 18, 2007
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.EDITED BY ALFRED POLLARD — A SHORT HISTORY — OF — ENGLISH PRINTING — 1476-1898
- 2.BY HENRY R. PLOMER — LONDON KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER AND COMPANY, LIMITED 1900 — The English Bookman's Library
- 3.EDITOR'S PREFACE
- 4.CONTENTS AND LIST OF PLATES
- 5.LIST OF PLATES
- 6.CHAPTER I — CAXTON AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
- 7.CHAPTER II — FROM 1500 TO THE DEATH OF WYNKYN DE WORDE
- 8.CHAPTER III — THOMAS BERTHELET TO JOHN DAY
- 9.CHAPTER IV — JOHN DAY — APPENDIX — LIST OF PRINTERS AND STATIONERS ENROLLED IN THE CHARTER
- 10.CHAPTER V — JOHN DAY'S CONTEMPORARIES
- 11.CHAPTER VI — PROVINCIAL PRESSES OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY [8] — PRINTING IN SCOTLAND AND IRELAND DURING THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY [10]
- 12.CHAPTER VII — THE STUART PERIOD — 1603-1640
- 13.CHAPTER VIII — FROM 1640 TO 1700 — APPENDIX No. I — LIST OF ENGLISH PRINTERS 1649-50 — APPENDIX No. II — APPENDIX No. III — NUMBER OF PRESSES AND WORKMEN EMPLOYED IN THE PRINTING-HOUSES OF LONDON IN 1668
- 14.CHAPTER IX — 1700-1750
- 15.CHAPTER X — 1750-1800
- 16.CHAPTER XI — THE PRESENT CENTURY
- 17.INDEX OF PRINTERS, TYPEFOUNDERS, Etc.
- 18.INDEX TO PLACES — FOOTNOTES:
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