Catalogue Of An Exhibition Of Books Broadsides Proclamations Portraits Autographs Etc PDF Download

Excerpt from Catalogue of an Exhibition of Books, Broadsides, Proclamations, Portraits, Autographs, Etc: Illustrative of the History and Progress of Printing and Bookselling in England, 1477-1800, Held at Stationers' Hall, 25-29 June 1912 Various foreign presses are naturally inseparable from the early English Book Trade, and for divers reasons have been included in the present Exhibition. Our prototypographer Caxton and several of his successors learned their trade abroad, and, indeed, many of the foremost printers and publishers settled in this country in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries were of foreign extraction. In many cases, as a matter of necessity, books in English (usually those prohibited for reasons connected with religious controversy) or service books intended for the English market, were printed by foreigners who had never Set foot in these isles, and apart from their interest as regards our language, have been included to Show their typographical influence on English printing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.