Incunabula and Americana 1450-1800 : : A Key to Bibliographical Study / / Margaret Bingham Stillwell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Bingham Stillwell, Margaret,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1930]; ©1930
• Year of Publication: 1930
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

A history and survey of incunabula and Americana from 1450 to 1800, written in part to help others begin the difficult task of studying the same subject.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction: The Purpose and Plan of the Book -- Incunabula (1450-1500) -- The Superb Roman Type Employed by Sweynheim and Pannartz: Reproduction of a Page (Reduced) of Strabo's Geographia, Rome [1469] -- I. The Printed Books of the Fifteenth Century -- II. Identification and Collation -- III. Bibliographical Reference Material -- Americana (1492-1800) -- I. Preliminary Survey of Sources and Methods -- II. The Century of Maritime Discovery, 1492-1600 -- III. Two Centuries of Colonial Growth, 1500-1700 -- IV. Later Americana and the Revolutionary Periods -- V. Early Printing in America -- Reference Section -- I. Notes and Definitions -- II. Foreign Bibliographical Terms -- III. Latin Contractions and Abbreviations -- IV. Place-Names of Fifteenth Century Printing Towns -- V. Incunabula: Selected Bibliographies and Monographs -- VI. Fifteenth Century Woodcuts, Etc.: Selected Monographs -- VII. Americana: Selected Bibliographies and Monographs -- VIII. Miscellanea: Selected Monographs -- Index