Isbn: 9780948170232 - incunabula in the westminster abbey and westminster school libraries (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 8vo (25.5 cm), 185 pp. Publisher's cloth. Westminster Abbey is closely connected with the early history of printing in England: England's first printer, William Caxton, had his workshop within the monastery walls. Both the Abbey and the adjacent Westminster School have profited by the learning and generosity of generations of bishops, deans, canons and teachers, who donated or bequeathed them their collections of incunabula. 70 incunabula are described. The descriptions pay much attention to copy-specific features. About half the volumes are in contemporary or near-contemporary bindings, mostly English, but several from the Continent, and these have been identified and described by Mirjam Foot.…

Zustand: Very Good.