"A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898" by Henry Robert Plomer. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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Henry Robert Plomer. A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898
A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898
Table of Contents
CONTENTS AND LIST OF PLATES
LIST OF PLATES
CHAPTER I
CAXTON AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
CHAPTER II
FROM 1500 TO THE DEATH OF WYNKYN DE WORDE
CHAPTER III
THOMAS BERTHELET TO JOHN DAY
CHAPTER IV
JOHN DAY
APPENDIX
LIST OF PRINTERS AND STATIONERS ENROLLED IN THE CHARTER
CHAPTER V
JOHN DAY'S CONTEMPORARIES
CHAPTER VI
PROVINCIAL PRESSES OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY[8]
PRINTING IN SCOTLAND AND IRELAND DURING THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY[10]
CHAPTER VII
THE STUART PERIOD
1603–1640
CHAPTER VIII
FROM 1640 TO 1700
APPENDIX No. I
LIST OF ENGLISH PRINTERS 1649–50
APPENDIX No. II
APPENDIX No. III
CHAPTER IX
1700–1750
CHAPTER X
1750–1800
CHAPTER XI
THE PRESENT CENTURY
INDEX OF PRINTERS, TYPEFOUNDERS, Etc
INDEX TO PLACES
Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty. FOOTNOTES:
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Henry Robert Plomer
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Among other books printed in 1496, were Dives and Pauper, a folio, and several quartos such as the Abbey of the Holy Ghost, the Meditations of St. Bernard, and the Liber Festialis. In 1497 we find the Chronicles of England, and in 1498 an edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, a second edition of the Morte d'Arthur, and another of the Golden Legend, in fact nearly all De Worde's dated books up to 1500 were reprints of works issued by Caxton. But amongst the undated books we notice many new works, such as Lydgate's Assembly of Gods, and Sege of Thebes, Skelton's Bowghe of Court, The Three Kings of Cologne, and several school books.
In 1499 De Worde printed the Liber Equivocorum of Joannes de Garlandia, using for it a very small Black Letter making nine and a half lines to the inch, probably obtained from Paris. This type was generally kept for scholastic books, and in addition to the book above noted, Wynkyn de Worde printed with it, in the same year or the year following, an Ortus Vocabulorum. From the time when he succeeded to Caxton's business down to the year 1500, in which he left Westminster and settled in Fleet Street, De Worde printed at least a hundred books, the bulk of them undated.
