PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. 14 . . TO 1462.

CHAPTER II. 1462 TO 1500.

CHAPTER III. 1500 TO 1600.

CHAPTER IV. 1600 TO 1700.

CHAPTER V. THE BOOK IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

CHAPTER VI. THE BOOK IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

CHAPTER VII. TYPES, IMPRESSION, PAPER, INK.

CHAPTER VIII. BOOKBINDING.

CHAPTER IX. LIBRARIES.

INDEX.

FROM THE DAYS OF GUTENBERG TO THE PRESENT TIME.

BY
HENRI BOUCHOT,
OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY, PARIS.

Translated and Enlarged by
EDWARD C. BIGMORE.

WITH ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS OF FACSIMILES OF EARLY TYPOGRAPHY, PRINTERS' MARKS, COPIES OF BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS, AND SPECIMENS OF BINDINGS OF ALL AGES.

NEW YORK:
SCRIBNER AND WELFORD,
743 AND 745, BROADWAY.
1887.