Author: Henry Robert PlomerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Wynkyn de Worde & His Contemporaries from the Death of Caxton to 1535
Author: Henry Robert PlomerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Wynkyn de worde and his contemporaries, by henry r.plomer
Author: Henry r PlomerWynkyn de Worde and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Author: William F. HutmacherPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004485457
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Bookman
Author: Wynkyn de Worde and His Contemporaries
Author: Henry R. PlomerWynkyn de Worde
Author: James MoranPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Wynkyn de Worde was William Caxton's assistant and in about 1500 he was the first printer to set up his shop in London's Fleet Street, which was for centuries perhaps the world's most famous centre of printing. He was not just a craftsman; his place in history is that of the first publisher to popularize the products of the printing press. His output was huge - more than 700 works over a period of 40 years. He produced a great variety of books: children's books, short histories, poetry, romances, instructions for pilgrims and works on good manners, marriage, household practice, medicines for horses and husbandry. Wynkyn de Worde laid the foundations of commercial publishing in Britain.
Makers and Users of Medieval Books
Author: Carol M. MealePublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843843757
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Essays exploring different aspects of late medieval and early modern manuscript and book culture. Late medieval manuscripts and early modern print history form the focus of this volume. It includes new work on the compilation of some important medieval manuscript miscellanies and major studies of merchant patronage and of a newly revealed woman patron, alongside explorations of medieval texts and the post-medieval reception history of Langland, Chaucer and Nicholas Love. It thus pays a fitting tribute to the career of Professor A.S.G. Edwards, highlighting his scholarly interests and demonstrating the influence of his achievements. Carol M. Meale is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol; the late Derek Pearsall was Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and Honorary Research Professor at the University of York. Contributors: Nicolas Barker, J.A. Burrow, A.I. Doyle, Martha W. Driver, Susanna Fein, Jane Griffiths, Lotte Hellinga, Alfred Hiatt, Simon Horobin, Richard Linenthal, Carol M. Meale, Orietta Da Rold, John Scattergood, Kathleen L. Scott, Toshiyuki Takamiya, John J. Thompson.
Inland Printer, American Lithographer
Author: Inland and American Printer and Lithographer
Author: The Book-Makers
Author: Adam SmythPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541605659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them Books tell all kinds of stories—romances, tragedies, comedies—but if we learn to read the signs correctly, they can tell us the story of their own making too. The Book-Makers offers a new way into the story of Western culture’s most important object, the book, through dynamic portraits of eighteen individuals who helped to define it. Books have transformed humankind by enabling authors to create, document, and entertain. Yet we know little about the individuals who brought these fascinating objects into existence and of those who first experimented in the art of printing, design, and binding. Who were the renegade book-makers who changed the course of history? From Wynkyn de Worde’s printing of fifteenth-century bestsellers to Nancy Cunard’s avant-garde pamphlets produced on her small press in Normandy, this is a celebration of the book with the people put back in.