Gutenberg to Plantin: An Outline of the Early History of Printing [1930]

Gutenberg to Plantin: An Outline of the Early History of Printing by George Parker Winship, 3rd Printing, 1930. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 8.5 x 8, pp. 86, first published in 1926. Printed at the Harvard University Press.

Illustrated throughout with (22) black and white illustrations. With a Preface by Winship, the Assistant Librarian at the Harvard College Library. Followed by (15) chapters featuring: The Invention of Typography 1440–1456; The Printers Encounter the Renaissance; The Use of Pictures; The End of the Era of the Master Printers and various developments in between. The author presents an interesting narrative revealing how important the makers of books were and their influence on economic, industrial, social, religious and intellectual aspects.

With a once folded fine press announcement laid-in for “Deceit Unmask’d being A Letter from a Flemish Merchant to Don Diego de Mondragon ...”; Cambridge, The CLXXXVI Press, 1951. 

A nearly fine hardcover cloth with light handling and deckled edges. In its' very good moderately toned and soiled dust jacket with a small tear and light wear along the edges and spine.