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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The Enemies of BooksBefore the invention of Printing, books were comparatively scarce, and, 'knowing as we do, how very difficult it is, even after the steam-press has been working for half a century, to make a collection of half a million books, we are forced to receive with great in credulity the accounts in old writers of the wonderful extent of ancient libraries.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousand...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from A Catalogue of Books Printed by (or Ascribed to the Press Of) William Caxton: In Which Is Included the Press-Mark of Every Copy Contained in the Library of the British MuseumBallad, A. The fragment quoted by Dibdin in Typographical Antiquities, Vol. I., p. 359, is a portion of Caxton's Firi'c Edition of the Canterbury Tales.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at w...

Excerpt from The Gouernayle of Helthe: With the Medecyne of Ye StomackeHad hindly a¿yted me in my Purfuit, a Specimen of what the Englijh Pre/s in its fir/t Infancy was employed to produce. An Efibrt has been made, by the Ufi of Types very fimilar to thofie employed by Caxton, to give this Reprint jomething of the Appearance of the Original. To efiec'l this ftill further, the Types were caji expre¿ly in Pewter, which, from its Softnefis, yield...

Excerpt from Shakspere Typography: Being an Attempt to Show Shakspere's Personal Connection, With and Technical Knowledge of the Art of Printing, Also, Remarks Upon Some Common Typographical Errors, With Especial Reference to the Text of ShakspereThe Second and Third Chapters, erected on a similar basis of selection, are intended to prove that Shakspere had an intimate and special knowledge of Typography.About the PublisherForgotten Books publ...

Excerpt from Shakspere TypographyTo-day, amid the whirr of many presses, and the hurrying to and fro of the printing office, the printer finds little or no time for literary pur suits, despite the fact that printing is, in very truth, the handmaid of literature. It is the more admirable, there fore, when a successful printer attains to a degree of scholarship particu larly scholarship in mat ters that enlighten and dignify his own handi craft....

Excerpt from The Biography and Typography of William Caxton, England's First PrinterThe Plates, as in the former edition, are from the skilful hand of G. I. F. Tupper, Esq, of Pudding Lane, Eastcheap, whose ability in this description of work is beyond praise. To him also are due many of the remarks on the various types, both in this and the former edition.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic b...

Excerpt from The Pentateuch of Printing: With a Chapter on JudgesThe formation of the Library Association, in 1877, was another event which commanded Mr. Blades' warm sympathy. He was a Member of the Council of that body from the beginning, and a frequent attendant at the pleasant yearly Conferences held under its auspices in various parts of the country. His diary contains notes of some of these bibliographical expeditions, that to the Glasgo...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

An Account of the German Morality-Play - Entitled Depositio Cornuti Typographici as Performed in the 17th and 18th Centuries is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1885.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of...

Excerpt from Proposals Made by Rev. James Kirkwood, (Minister of Minto) In 1699, to Found Public Libraries in Scotland: Reprinted Verbatim Et Literatim From the Rare Copy in the Free Public Library, WiganTreasury for assistance in bringing down the books from England, and fixing the places where the libraries were to be stationed. The minutes of that Assembly also show that they agreed to an elaborate set of rules 'about the ordering and prese...