Fifty Essays in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Bibliography. Edited by Dennis E. Rhodes. Victor Scholderer

Fifty Essays in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Bibliography. Edited by Dennis E. Rhodes.

Author	Victor Scholderer
Publisher	Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1966
Edition	1
Weight	1350 gram
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Booknumber	11495
Category's	Books on Books (Bibliography) Books on Books (15th Century) Books on Books (16th Century) Books on Books (Manuscripts & Early Printed Books)
4to; pp. (2), 302. Publisher�s cloth with gilt-lettered spine and orig. dust-jacket. Illustrated. Index. Published at the occasion of the eighty-fifth birthday of the famous English incunabulist (1880-1971), attached to the British Museum since 1904 as successor to Proctor. By his main work, the BM�s �Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the British Museum�, and his other publishings Scholderer influenced the whole field of incunabula study very deeply. This volume, with Scholderer�s portrait, a complete list of his published writings from 1900 up to 1966 and a subject index contains fifty of S�s most outstanding essays on early bibliography, written in a lucid and entertaining style. Many illustrations. A nicely illustrated work; the 50 essays together provide a wonderful account of early printing in general. Edges jacket with some minor shelf-wear. Very good copy.
Prijs	� 175.00