This tenth volume of ABHB (Annual bibliography of the history of the printed book and libraries) contains 3275 records, selected from some 2000 periodicals, the list of which follows this introduction. They have been compiled by the National Committees of the following countries: Australia Italy Austria Luxembourg Belgium The Netherlands Bulgaria Poland Canada Portugal Denmark Rumania Finland South Africa France Spain German Democratic Republic Switzerland German Federal Republic USA Great Britain USSR Hungary Yugoslavia Ireland (Republic of) Spain and Latin America have partially been...

This collection of thirteen essays examines sixteenth-century type design in France. The papers focus on the great names of sixteenth-century typography, such as Simon de Colines, Robert Estienne, Claude Garamont, Robert Granjon and Pierre Haultin, and also include a number of minor masters of the period.

In the course of the early sixteenth century the printed book decoration underwent a double metamorphosis. First stylistically, through the replacement of the previous medieval mostly floral embellishments by new motifs copied from Islamic or Byzantine sources, or borrowed from antiquity. Second technically, by the gradual inclusion of cast ornaments into the printer's bills-of-fount. They increasingly replaced the prestigious, sumptuous and time-consuming hand-painted illumination and decoration, or the less costly and sometimes crude woodcut techniques. This survey focuses on one pattern of...

In de wereld van het oude en zeldzame boek en In the world of Bibliography and old and rare van de bibliografie is de naam Martinus Nijhoff books the name Nijhoff is a famous one mainly bekend, voornamelijk om twee redenen. In de for two reasons. In the first place it refers to the eerste plaats als de gevestigde uitgever van werken old-established Dutch publisher of works about betreffende de nationale geschiedenis en typogra- national history and typography. lts Monuments ty- fie. De Monuments typographiques des Pays Bas au quin- pographiques des Pays Bas au quinzieme siecle ( 1856-1868 ),...

The history of printing, books, and libraries, is confined only to a limited extent within the boundaries of individual countries. There are, indeed, few historical developments which have played a more universal role, in reaction against all kinds of particularism, than type design, printing, book production, publishing, illustration, binding, librarianship, journal- ism, and related subjects. Their history should be assessed and studied primarily in an international, not in a local, context. The bibliographical resources, however, which the historian of these sub- jects has at his disposal...