Plomer traces the English press from William Caxton and his contemporaries through Wynkyn de Worde, Berthelet and the great Elizabethan printer John Day, the provincial presses, the troubled Stuart years of licensing and the Court of High Commission, the eighteenth-century masters and the revival of fine printing at the end of the nineteenth century.
A compact, scholarly survey for book lovers and students of the history of print. Download the free EPUB.