Delivered as Sandars lectures at Cambridge, these chapters trace the book trade from Caxton’s press at Westminster in 1476 to 1535. Duff follows Wynkyn de Worde, Pynson and lesser printers, their devices and types, the stationers who sold books, and the binders who covered them.
Specialist but readable history for anyone curious about how printing took root in England. Download the free EPUB.