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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 The Gouernayle of Helthe: With the Medecyne of Ye Stomacke From the Commencement of the present Century the Typographical Works of William Caxton have excited a steadily increasing Interest, yet have they never been accurately and systematically described. To remedy in fame Degree this Deficiency in our Bibliography has been for a considerable period my Ambition, and in collecting Materials for this Purpose The Gouernayle Of Helt...

Excerpt from Negro Poems, Melodies, Plantation Pieces, Camp Meeting Songs, Etc The Old Shore Road The old shore road is shady And the old shore road is cool, And often I stop by the wayside When driving my old black mule, And on my way to heaven When heavy is my load, The Lord Almighty done take me Along the old shore road. This old mule that I'm driving He go up many a hill, And long he tug on the traces And pull with a right good will...

Feuer und Wasser, Gas und Hitze, Staub und Vernachlässigung, Ignoranz und Engstirnigkeit: Bücher können auf vielerlei Art zu Schaden kommen. William Blades schildert voller Humor und Liebe zum Buch die zahllosen Gefahren, denen Druckwerke zu allen Zeiten ausgesetzt waren. Dabei sind es beileibe nicht nur Naturkatastrophen und politische Umwälzungen, die ganze Bibliotheken vernichten. Oft richten gerade die kleinsten (Buch-)Würmer den größten S...

Excerpt from Some Early Type Specimen Books of England, Holland, France, Italy, and Germany Information upon Early Type Specimen Books is only to be obtained from the books themselves, and as they are very seldom to be met with, I feel that the many imperfections of the following sketch will be readily excused. At the same time it is urgently requested that any reader who may be able to add to, or correct, the information here given will favo...

Excerpt from The Enemies of Books Before 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 Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of th...

Excerpt from Shakspere Typography In the good old days when printing was better recognized as a mystery than as an art, one could call a printer 'a man of letters' without being guilty of a pun. Books were for the few then, and the man who would print them must be somewhat of a scholar himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a r...

Excerpt from The Pentateuch of Printing: With a Chapter on Judges The Pentateuch of Printing is not so fanciful a title for the present book as might at first sight appear. There is a self-evident analogy between the Genesis of the World and the Genesis of Printing. The spread of Typography is not inaptly typified by an Exodus, while the laws promulgated in Leviticus have a plain parallel in idea with the laws and observances necessary to be ...

Excerpt from Books in Chains: And Other Bibliographical PapersAffi' T bas been t/zougltt that a col c lection of some of Mr. Blades's Fugitive Pieces would form a volume acceptable to tile readers of tlze book-love?) s Library, as a companion volume to that distinguzs/zed biblio graplzer's Enemies of Books.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book ...

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Excerpt from The Biography and Typography of William Caxton, England's First Printer The 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 Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and cl...

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Excerpt from A List of Medals, Jettons, Tokens, &C, : In Connection With Printers and the Art of PrintingNumismata typographica the plan. Of which will be found in a Prospectus inserted at the end of this volume.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technol...