The Art & History of Books

Reprint of 1968 publication with new forward by Nicolas Barker.

Contents:
Origins -- Greece -- Rome -- Byzantium -- Hiberno-Saxon manuscripts -- Carolingian and Romanesque manuscripts -- Gothic manuscripts -- Renaissance manuscripts -- The beginning of printing. Block books -- Gutenberg -- Fust and Schoeffer -- The fifteenth century. Germany -- Italy -- France -- The Netherlands -- England -- Spain -- The sixteenth century. Italy -- Germany -- France -- The Netherlands -- Spain -- England -- The seventeenth century. The eighteenth century. The nineteenth century -- The twentieth century