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Author Steinberg, S. H. (Sigfrid Henry), 1899-1969.

Title Five hundred years of printing / by S.H. Steinberg ; with a foreword by Beatrice Warde.

Imprint Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin, 1955.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  686.2 St34f 1955    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 277 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Physical Medium 8vo. rdabf
Series Pelican books ; A343
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-269) and index.
Contents I. The first century of printing, 1450-1550. 1. The incunabula period ; 2. Gutenberg ; 3. Type-design ; 4. The spread of printing ; 5. Printing in the vernacular ; 6. Printer and publisher ; 7. Early best-sellers ; 8. The title page ; 9. Book illustration -- II. The era of consolidation, 1550-1800. 1. Type-design ; 2. Book production ; 3. Publishers and patrons ; 4. Official and private presses ; 5. The reading public ; 6. The periodical press ; 7. Libraries ; 8. Censorship -- III. The nineteenth century and after. 1. Technical progress ; 2. The Latin alphabet in script and print ; 3. The trade ; 4. Censorship ; 5. Official and private presses ; 6. The reading public ; 7. Best-sellers and steady-sellers ; 8. Popular series.
Subject Printing -- History.
Printing -- history. (DNLM)D011327Q000266
Printing. (OCoLC)fst01076612
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Warde, Beatrice, 1900-1969.

 
    
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