Printing History: The Journal of the American Printing History Association, No. 5 / American Printing History Association

Identifier:REF.SE.1403.05

Dimensions:48 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Publication dates:1981

Description:Issue 5, Volume 3, No. 1 of Printing History: The Journal of the American Printing Association. Printing History started in 1979 as a scholarly journal published twice a year by The American Printing History Association. Printing History welcomes essays on the history of printing and book arts, regardless of country or time period, and ideally based on primary sources and illustrated. There are also book reviews at the back of many issues. Articles cover the history of printing, publishing, books, type, typography, paper and related industries. Contents: Editorial -- The Renaissance Book, by Daniel Traister -- The Early Printer as a "Renaissance Man", by Elizabeth L. Einstein -- Misprint and Minerva: Printers' Journeymen in Sixteenth-Century Lyon, by Natalie Zemon Davis -- Analytical Bibliography and Renaissance Printing History, by G. Thomas Tanselle -- The Dimensions of the Renaissance Title Page, by Ruth Mortimer -- Notes on Contributors.