1. Anna James – Pusey House Library

3. ???-1455+

4. http://library.osu.edu/blogs/rarebooks/2009/12/08/t hings-happen-in-threes-or-at-least-medieval- manuscripts-do/ "Sumerian 26th c Adab" by Unknown - http://www.schoyencollection.com/religions_files/ms 3029.jpg. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sumerian_ 26th_c_Adab.jpg#/media/File:Sumerian_26th_c_Ada b.jpg "2049 - Byzantine Museum, Athens - Parchement scroll, 13th century - Photo by Giovanni Dall'Orto, Nov 12" by G.dallorto - Own work. Licensed under Attribution via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2049_- _Byzantine_Museum,_Athens_- _Parchement_scroll,_13th_century_- _Photo_by_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto,_Nov_12.jpg#/me dia/File:2049_-_Byzantine_Museum,_Athens_- _Parchement_scroll,_13th_century_- _Photo_by_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto,_Nov_12.jpg

5. 1454 or 1455 "Gutenberg bible Old Testament Epistle of St Jerome" by Johannes Gutenberg - From a scan at the Ransom Center of the University of Texas at Austin http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/gutenberg /. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gutenberg_bible_O ld_Testament_Epistle_of_St_Jerome.jpg#/media/File:Gutenbe rg_bible_Old_Testament_Epistle_of_St_Jerome.jpg

6. 1454/5-ca. 1820

7. Xylographic printing – 8 th century Movable type – 11 th century http://csmh.pbworks.com/w/page/7309486/10 50%20- %20Chinese%20invent%20movable%20type %20print

8. Handpress (Bodleian Print Room) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SZ5iZZ0e3k

11.  15 th century: Most of Europe  England (1476), Scotland (1507), Ireland (1551)  16 th century: South America, North Africa, Southern India, Japan  17 th century: North America  18 th century re-introduced to Asia  19 th century: China

12. 1454-1500 Incunabulum = Baby not old enough to sleep in its own bed. Caxton's Chaucer: Prologue page of the Canterbury Tales with an illustration of a knight on horseback, c.1485? ©BL

13. 1454-1500 Singular Incunable / Incunabulum Plural Incunables / Incunabula Caxton's Chaucer: Prologue page of the Canterbury Tales with an illustration of a knight on horseback, c.1485? ©BL

14. "Gutenberg bible Old Testament Epistle of St Jerome" by Johannes Gutenberg - From a scan at the Ransom Center of the University of Texas at Austin http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/gutenberg /. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gutenberg_bible_O ld_Testament_Epistle_of_St_Jerome.jpg#/media/File:Gutenbe rg_bible_Old_Testament_Epistle_of_St_Jerome.jpg

15. Caxton's Chaucer: Prologue page of the Canterbury Tales with an illustration of a knight on horseback, c.1485? ©BL

16. Nuremberg Chronicle 1493 http://theangus.rpc.ox.ac.uk/media- bank/?textsearch=nuremberg&file_type= &media_type=&theme=&sortby=date- desc

17. Qu’ran, British Museum https://bridgesandtangents.wordpress.co m/2012/03/19/the-beauty-of-an- unbound-book/

18. WOODCUTS Very early books Very cheap books Heavy lines

19. ENGRAVING & ETCHING Slightly more subtle?

20. Printed separately from text Often separate plate Squished paper

21.  Title pages didn’t catch on so quickly  Books usually sold without covers until c.19 th  See blank outer pages in shop, protecting the text

22. Bulla Cruciata contra Turcos -1463 http://diglib.hab.de/inkunabeln/li-4f- 413-1-1/start.htm

23. John Fortescue, A Learned Commendation of the Politique Lawes of Englande (1st English ed, 1567) 20140816" by Smuconlaw. - Own work.. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki /File:John_Fortescue,_A_Learned_Co mmendation_of_the_Politique_Lawes _of_Englande_(1st_English_ed,_1567, _colophon)_- _20140816.jpg#/media/File:John_Fort escue,_A_Learned_Commendation_o f_the_Politique_Lawes_of_Englande_( 1st_English_ed,_1567,_colophon)_- _20140816.jpg

24.  Books usually sold without covers until c.19 th  See blank outer pages in shop, protecting the text  Title page invented 1463  Started to put publication details on title page  Title page now important  See blank outer pages in shop, protecting the text…

26.  Integral covers  Cheaper paper  Overlooked in past

29. What is it? Who else has it? Why do you have it?

30. That’s the most important thing