ANTIQUES Early off the presses but still hot; Richard Edmonds praises the beauty of Renaissance books and their illustrations - along with the early 20th-century collectors.

From: The Birmingham Post (England) | Date: January 15, 2000| Author: Edmonds, Richard | Copyright information

A hundred years ago, the great book collectors began to turn their attention to the earliest printed books such as those by Caxton. Many of them poured out of the superb printing presses in Rome, Basel, Nuremberg and Antwerp, where fine printing was the order of the day.

Obviously, a certain snobbery lay behind the high prices paid for rare texts. And so you had Earl Spencer, the Marquess of Blandford and the Duke of Devonshire competing for the greatest works all of whic...

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