anna james – pusey house library.??-1455+ hings-happen-in-threes-or-at-least-medieval-...
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INTRODUCTION TO RARE BOOKS
Anna James – Pusey House Library
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BOOK 2.0
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BEFORE PRINTING
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THIS IS A BOOK
http://library.osu.edu/blogs/rarebooks/2009/12/08/things-happen-in-threes-or-at-least-medieval-manuscripts-do/
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GUTENBERG BIBLE
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_Old_Testament_Epistle_of_St_Jerome.jpg#/media/File:Gutenberg_bible_Old_Testament_Epistle_of_St_Jerome.jpg
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HANDPRESS ERA
1454/5-ca. 1820
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PRINTING IN ASIA
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Xylographic printing –8th century
Movable type – 11th century
http://csmh.pbworks.com/w/page/7309486/1050%20-%20Chinese%20invent%20movable%20type%20print
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Handpress (Bodleian Print Room)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SZ5iZZ0e3k
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PARCHMENT AND PAPER
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PARCHMENT AND PAPER
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PRINTING PRESSES
15th century: Most of Europe England (1476), Scotland (1507), Ireland (1551)
16th century: South America, North Africa, Southern India, Japan
17th century: North America
18th century re-introduced to Asia
19th century: China
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INCUNABLES / INCUNABULA1454-1500
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
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INCUNABLES / INCUNABULA1454-1500
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
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CUSTOMISATION
"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_Old_Testament_Epistle_of_St_Jerome.jpg#/media/File:Gutenberg_bible_Old_Testament_Epistle_of_St_Jerome.jpg
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CUSTOMISATION
Caxton's Chaucer: Prologue page of the Canterbury Tales with an illustration of a knight on horseback, c.1485? ©BL
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CUSTOMISATION
Nuremberg Chronicle1493
http://theangus.rpc.ox.ac.uk/media-bank/?textsearch=nuremberg&file_type=&media_type=&theme=&sortby=date-desc
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BINDING
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Qu’ran, British Museum https://bridgesandtangents.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/the-beauty-of-an-unbound-book/
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ILLUSTRATIONS
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WOODCUTS
Very early books
Very cheap books
Heavy lines
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ILLUSTRATIONS
ENGRAVING&ETCHINGSlightly more subtle?
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INTAGLIO
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Printed separately from text
Often separate plate
Squished paper
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TITLE PAGES & COLOPHONS
Title pages didn’t catch on so quickly
Books usually sold without covers until c.19th
See blank outer pages in shop, protecting the text
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FIRST TITLE PAGEBulla Cruciata contra Turcos -1463
http://diglib.hab.de/inkunabeln/li-4f-413-1-1/start.htm
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COLOPHON
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John Fortescue, A Learned Commendation of the Politique Lawes of Englande (1st English ed, 1567)
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TITLE PAGES & COLOPHONS
Books usually sold without covers until c.19th
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…
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MACHINE-MADE BOOKS
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VIVAT VICTORIANA
Integral covers
Cheaper paper
Overlooked in past
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WHAT COUNTS AS RARE?
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WHAT IS WORTH TREATING AS RARE IN YOUR LIBRARY?What is it?
Who else has it?
Why do you have it?
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IF IT’S SPECIAL TO YOU
That’s the most important thing