Front matter

The Sandars Lectures

1899 and 1904

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE,

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The Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders of Westminster and London from 1476 to 1535

By

E. GORDON DUFF, M.A. Oxon.

Sometime Sandars Reader in Bibliography in the University of Cambridge

Cambridge at the University Press 1906

Cambridge:

PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

TO FRANCIS JOHN HENRY JENKINSON IN REMEMBRANCE OF MUCH KINDNESS AND MUCH PLEASANT WORK IN CAMBRIDGE

PREFACE

THE lectures contained in the present volume I delivered as Sandars Reader in two series, the first in the Lent Term 1899, the second in the May Term 1904 and they are thus separated by an interval of five years. Of the first series a small edition was privately printed for presentation, but never published, the second series is now printed for the first time. Though the second part forms a continuation of the first, the two are quite distinct. With the close of the fifteenth century many important changes took place in the English book-trade, and its conditions altered to a great extent, so that the period from 1476 to 1500 has many essential points of difference from the period between 1501 and 1535 and they can with advantage be treated separately. I have thought it best therefore not to attempt to combine the two series, but to issue them, with certain corrections and additions in their original form.

It remains to express my sincere thanks to Dr Jenkinson, the University Librarian who was kind enough to read the proofs, and to Mr H. G. Aldis to whom I am indebted for the excellent index.

E. G. D.

April, 1906.

LIST OF PLATES

(These plates are the full size of the originals.)

1. Title-page to W. de Worde’s edition of the ‘Book of Good Manners’ to face p. 36

From the unique copy in the University Library, Cambridge.

2. Machlinia Border used by R. Pynson in ‘Aphthonii Sophistae Praeexercitamenta’ to face p. 56

From the copy in the University Library, Cambridge.

3. Page of the Sarum Breviary printed by R. de Novimagio at Venice in 1483 to face p. 74

From the unique copy in the Bibliothéque Nationale.

4. Binding of Frederick Egmont on a copy of ‘Lavacrum Conscientiae’ printed at Rouen to face p. 114

From the example in the library of Caius College, Cambridge.

5. Unrecorded device used by W. de Worde in the ‘Manipulus Curatorum’ of 1502 to face p. 132

From the unique copy in the Bodleian Library.

6. Title-page to R. Redman’s edition of Lyndewode’s ‘Constitutions’ of 1534 to face p. 176

From the copy in the University Library, Cambridge.

7. Device of Christopher Endhoven from the Sarum ‘Processionale’ printed at Antwerp in 1525 to face p. 222

From the copy in the Bodleian Library.

PART I.

1476-1500.