The History of the Library in Western Civilization. Volume II: From Cicero to Hadrian. The Roman World from th...
Co-publication. Sales Rights: worldwide except USA. Available in the USA from OAK KNOLL PRESS (ISBN 1584561149). This work is the second part in an important, five-volume series addressing the unique role libraries have played in building and preserving Western culture. Mr. Staikos has become one of... More info
Readers in the Cotsen Children`s Library
PAPER. Also available in hardcover version. Introductions by Andrea Immel. This special, lavishly illustrated volume was published to celebrate the 75th birthday of Mr. Lloyd E. Cotsen, the collector responsible for the library of over 100,000 books, manuscripts, drawings, educational toys, and prin... More info
Reliures des Croisiers à travers les siècles
Exhibition catalogue with contributions on the bookbindings of the order of Croisiers in the XIVth and XVth centuries. With a detailed description of 4 manuscripts and 8 bindings and a description of the various techniques used by the bookbinder through a chronological study of 24 bindings, carried ... More info
Zwolse boeken voor een markt zonder grenzen 1477-1523.
Description of the 267 different editions of books printed in Zwolle in the first half century since the first printed book in Zwolle (1477-1523). The 267 editions are chronologically ordered by printer (among which are Johannes van Vollenhove, Pieter en Tymen van Os van Breda and Simon Corver), des... More info
A catalogue of Greek manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum and essays in honor of Gary Vikan
Volume of The Journal of the Walters Art Museum, dedicated to Dr Gary Vikan, a scholar of Byzantine art, curator of medieval art and for a period of ten years director of the Walters Art Museum. The centrepiece of this book is a catalogue of the twenty Greek manuscripts in the collection of the muse... More info
The Oxford Bible Pictures
History and description of the leaves of the Oxford Bible Pictures by the 13th-century English illuminator W. de Brailes.The Oxford Bible Pictures consist of thirty-four illuminated miniatures depicting biblical events from the fall of the Rebel Angels to the Last Judgment. This is one of the fe... More info
Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century now in the British Library BMC Part XIII, HEBRAICA
The Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century Now in the British Museum (British Library), generally referred to as BMC, is a monument in the history of the book. BMC followed on from the rearrangement of the Museum’s incunabula begun by Robert Proctor on the basis of the comprehensive survey o... More info
Printing the Classical Text.
The first Classical text was printed at Mainz in 1465. By the end of 1500 more than 350 printers in over 70 locations had contributed to the printing of more than 1500 separate editions. Almost every Classical Latin author had been printed, many in multiple editions, and the printing of Greek author... More info
Technique & Design in the history of printing.
Containing 26 selected and thoroughly rewritten essays and articles (all written by Janssen and published previously between 1976 and 2002 in yearbooks and periodicals) all dedicated to the history of printing and book production, this work draws systematically attention to the typogtaphical design ... More info