Gutenberg to Plantin an Outline of the Early History of Printing

1926. Contents: The Invention of Typography, 1440-1456; The Period of Development, 1460-1480; The Spread of Printing Throughout Germany; The Establishing of Printing as a Business; The Printers Encounter the Renaissance; Venice becomes the Headquarters of the Book Trade; Printing reaches the whole European World; The First Private Presses; The Use of Pictures; The Decade of Picture Books; The Learned Printers; The Patrons of Printing; Conflicting Tendencies at Paris and Geneva; The End of the Manuscript Tradition; and The End of the Era of the Master Printers.