Incunabula in Transit : People and Trade (Library of the Written Word - the Handpress World) (XIV, 510 Pp. with a Full Colou)

In Incunabula in Transit Lotte Hellinga explores trade in early printed books in the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Material evidence (typography, illumination, binding) and historical context deepen understanding of the evolving book trade. Eighteenth-century collectors changed early patterns of ownership.