Incunabula and their Readers: Printing Selling and Using Books in the Fifteenth Century.(Book Review)

From: Medium Aevum | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: Doyle, A.I. | Copyright information

Incunabula and their Readers: Printing Selling and Using Books in the Fifteenth Century, ed. Kristian Jensen (London: British Library, 2003), x + 291 pp.; 24 coloured plates. ISBN 0-7123-4769-0. 35.00 [pounds sterling].

This volume is made up of a selection of the papers given at a conference in London in 2000, some in revised form, and one by the editor, the time for which he yielded to other speakers. The wealth of detail in it and several others would hardly have been...

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