Incunabula and Americana 1450-1800 : : A Key to Bibliographical Study / / Margaret Bingham Stillwell.
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.
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1930] ©1930 |
| Year of Publication: | 1930 |
| Language: | English |
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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