Blount, Edward, 129–30, 132–33
blurbs, 263, 273
Boethius, 199
Book Beautiful, 242, 247, 253
book bindings
American colonial, 149
calf, 15, 131, 149
cartonnage or cardboard, 14
cloth, 14
Cobden-Sanderson, 237–38
decorative paper, 14
Galileo forgery, 13–14
fur, 15
leather, 14
Morocco or goatskin, 15
pigskin, 15
sewing and thread, 14, 18
sheepskin, 149–50
“stitched as issued,” 150
vellum, 15–16
wood slat, 14
book burnings, 58–60
book buying, 260–63, 268–72
book clubs, 266–67, 277
book edges, 16–17
Book of Kells, 36
Book of the Month Club, 266
book pirates, 218, 225–34
book prices, 201, 221, 225–26, 267–68, 271–75
Book Publishers Research Institute (BPRI), 272, 273
booksellers, 156–57
bookshelves, 265, 274
Book Sneak, 271
bookworms, 8
Boorstin, Daniel, 88
Bostius, Arnold, 46, 47
Boston Athenaeum, 16
Boston Morning Post, 223
Boston Museum, 232–33
Boston News-Letter, 151
Boston tea party, 160
Boswell, James, 201
Bradford, Andrew, 136–37, 141, 150–55, 158–59
Bradford, William, 141, 155–56
Bradstreet, Anne, 200
Brahe, Tycho, 7
Brill, Dr. A.A., 270
Britain, slavery abolished in, 230
Britannia, SS (steamer), 220
British Critic, 175–76
British explorers, 81, 84
British High Court of Justice, 252, 255
British Library, 29, 64, 71
British Museum, 109, 248
British Parliament, xvi, 66–67, 161
Brontë, Charlotte, 201
Brontë sisters, 200
Brother Jonathan, 225–26
Brown v. Board of Education, 26
Brunton, Mary, 200
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 97, 218
Bunbury, Sir Henry, 108
Burke, Seán, 201
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 216
Byzantine scholars, 86
C-14 analysis, 12
Caesar, Julius, 248
Canada, map of, 84, 103
cancelleresca (italic), 92
Canterbury Tales, The (Chaucer), 60
Kelmscott edition, 240
Capote, Truman, 200
Carlyle, Thomas, 231
cartonnage, 14
Case of Prohibitions [1607], 26
casting off, 115–16
Catherine of Aragon, 70, 72, 78
Catholic Church, 5, 45–46, 52–57, 65, 71, 90, 100
banned books, 49, 52–53, 57
Catholicon (Latin dictionary, 1460), 30
censorship, 118–20
Cervantes, Miguel de, 130
Cesi, Federico, 13, 18
Cesi bookplate, 18–19
Chace Act (1891), 234
Chamberlain’s Men. See King’s Men
Chapman and Hall, 221
charity, 69
Charles I, King of England, xii
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 78, 91, 95–98, 100
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 60, 240
chemical etching, 164
Cheney, O.H., 275
Cheney Report, 275–76
“Chimney Sweeper, The” (Blake), 166
China
copyright and, 234
maps and, 84, 104
Christmas Carol, A (Dickens), 221, 233–34
Church of England, 73
Clement VII, Pope, 70–71, 75
Cnoyen, Jacobus, 83
Cobden-Sanderson, Annie, 237, 242, 245, 252–53, 255–56
Cobden-Sanderson, Dickie, 250–51
Cobden-Sanderson, T.J., xvi, 235–38, 240–58, 283–84
Cochlaeus, Johannes, 62–63
Cockerell, Sydney, 241, 252
College of Physicians, 119–20
Colls, Kevin, 132
Cologne Chronicle (1499), 39
colophons, 29
Columbia University, 20
Columbus, Christopher, 81, 85, 87, 102, 105
Communion wafer, 61
compositors, 146–47
Conan Doyle, Arthur, 175
Condell, Henry, 120–22, 126–34
Confessions (Rousseau), 201
congregation, 68–69, 282
Congregationalists, 69
Consolation of Philosophy, The (Boethius), 199
Constantinople, 86
Constitutional Courant, 160, 162
consumerism, xvi, 261–62, 265, 274, 276
context, 171, 182, 184–87, 282
Cook, Captain, 5
Copernicus, 4
copper engraving, 92, 164, 179
copperplate press, 156
Coppola, Francis Ford, 112
copyright
American publishers and, 215–34, 283–84
Dickens and, 215, 221–33
Elizabethan England and, 125, 127, 129
international treaty on, 232–34
Corpus Aristotelicum, 89
Cortés, Hernán, 85
cotton gin, 10
cotton linters, 10
Courier and Enquirer, 223
Coverdale, Miles, 78–79
Covici-Friede, 259
Coward-McCann, 267
“Cradle Song, A” (Blake), 166
Cromwell, Thomas, 76, 78
Crooke, Dr. Helkiah, 118–20
cross-hatching, 179
cryptography, 48–49
Crystallizing Public Opinion (Bernays), 269, 277
Culper Spy Ring, 161
cum privilego, 125
Cunningham, Allan, 191
Cup of Gold (Steinbeck), 278
currency, 156–57
da Gama, Vasco, 85
Daniel, Book of, 100
Daniell, David, 75
Dante Alighieri, 193, 194, 199
Davidson, David, 42–43
Da Vinci, Leonardo, 91
De Caro, Marino Massimo, 1–20, 282
Declaration of Independence, first printing of, 157–58
De demonibus (Trithemius), 48
Dee, John, 83
Defoe, Daniel, 200
De morbo caduco et maleficiis (Trithemius), 48
depression
1837–43, 225, 227
1929–37 (Great), 259, 265–68, 271, 273–77
Dering, Sir Edward, 131
Dialogue Concerning Heresies (More), 280–81
Dickens, Charles, xvi, 108, 184, 201, 213–34, 283–84
dictionaries, 90
digital books, 35–37
Dogood, Silence (pseudonym of Benjamin Franklin), 139–40
Donne, John, 36
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, xiv
“dot-and-lozenge” technique, 179
Doubleday, 263, 267
Doubleday, Doran, 267
Doves Bindery, 238, 253, 256
counterfeit, 238
Doves Press, 241–57
Bible (1902–5), 243, 250
Milton Paradise Lost (1902), 243, 250
numbers, 248, 249
Doves Press Catalogue Raisonné, 249
Doves Type, xvi, 236–37, 245–57, 283
Drake, Sir Francis, 85, 94
Dunciad, The (Pope), 111–12
Dunlap, John, 157
Dunlap broadside (Declaration of Independence), 157–58
Dürer, Albrecht, 91–92
dust jackets, 263–64, 266, 273
Dziatzko, Karl, 41
Edgeworth, Maria, 200
E
dward III, King of England, 83
Eisenstein, Elizabeth, 56
elder, 69
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 83
Elyot, Sir Thomas, 70
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 273, 277
Emery Walker Trust, 257
Émile (Rousseau), 203
encyclopedias, 90
English anatomy volume, 118–19
English Bible. See Bible
engravings, 163, 179
Enlightenment, 216–18
Eragny Press, 253
Erasmus, Desiderius, 54, 62, 85, 199
Eren, Lukas, 114
Esdras II, 87
Essick, Robert, 168
Europe a Prophesy (Blake), frontispiece, 184–87, 185
title page, 186–87, 186
Exodus, 93
Ezekiel, 177
Farewell to Arms, A (Hemingway), 5
Farrar and Rinehart, 267
Faust, 30
Federal Security Service (FSS, Russia), 44
feminism, 201–3, 212, 270
Second Wave, 207
Fenno, John, 16
Fielding, Henry, 200
Fielding, Sarah, 200
fine press printing, 241–42
Finnegans Wake (Joyce), xi
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 273, 276
Flanders, map of, 96–97
flax plant, 7
flaxseed, 12
Flodden, Battle of, 70
Flugschriften (pamphlets), 56
folio format, 130–31
fonts. See typefaces
Ford, Henry, 261
fore-edge painting, 17
forgery, 1–20
binding and, 14–18
De Caro’s Galileo, 1–20
ink and, 10–13
paper and, 6–10
Pavier or “bad” Quartos and, 120, 122–24
Ryland and, 179
Forster, John, 201
Fourdrinier paper making machine, 238–39
Foxe, John, 61, 78
France, maps of, 95
Franco, James, 112
François I, King of France, 95
Frankenstein (Shelley), 8, 203–4
Franklin, Benjamin, xvi, 135–62, 273, 283
Franklin, Colin, 240
Franklin, James, 138–44, 151
Franklin, Josiah, 138, 143–44
Frederick, Christine, 261
freedom of the press, 140–44
French and Indian War, 160–61
French Revolution, 207–8
Freud, Sigmund, 268
Frobisher, Martin, 84–85, 94–95
Fust, Johannes, 24, 28–30, 39, 45
Galileo Galilei, 1–20
De Caro forgery, 1–20, 282
watercolors, 12–13, 19
Garden of Eden, 87
Gaskell, Elizabeth, 201
gauffering, 17
Gemma Frisius, globe of 1536, 91–94
Genesis, 88–89
Gensfleisch family, 23
Gentleman’s Magazine, The, 197
Geographia (Ptolemy), 86–87
first edition (Rome, 1469), 87
Georgia State University, 19
German Peasants’ War (1524–25), 66
Germany, 101. See also Nazi Germany
Gothic fonts and, 246
vernacular Bible and, 59
Gestae Arthuri (Cnoyen), 83
Ghent, map of, 95–97
Ghost (film), 179
“Ghost of a Flea” (Blake), 190, 191
Gibbon, Edward, 281
gilt decoration, 17
globe
Gemma (1536), 91–92
printed on flat paper, 101–2
Globe Theater, 120
Goddard, William, 160, 162
Godfather, The (film), 112
Godfrey, Mrs., 135–36
Godwin, William, 197, 201, 203–4, 209–12
Goebbels, Joseph, 277
Goethe, 218
Goosebumps (Stine), 9
Gordon, Patrick, 153
Gothic script, or textura, 245. See also typefaces, Gothic
government contracts, 140–43, 150, 152–54, 156
Grant, James, 216
Grant, Ulysses S., 27
Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck), 266
graphic design, 258
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 263
Greek language, 62, 86
Greeks, ancient, 89
Green, James N., 151, 159
Green, Robert, 257
Greenland, map of, 103
Greg, W.W., 122, 124
Grimm fairy tales, 25, 171–72
Grosset, Alexander, 262
Gutenberg, Johannes, xiv-xv, 10–12, 21–50, 54, 281
Bible (1455), 31, 39–44
Catholicon (1460), 30
ink and, 11–12
Private Press Movement and, 241, 257
typeface and, 246
Haldeman-Julius, E., 264
Hamlet (Shakespeare), xv, 107, 132–33
“bad” or Pavier Quarto, 107–9, 113, 121, 134
handwritten texts, 33–37
Hard Times (Dickens), 184
Harford Times, 223
Harper and Brothers, 270
Hays, Mary, 210
Haywood, Eliza, 200
Heidelberg University, 26, 33
Helmasperger Instrument, 28, 30
Heminges, John, 120–22, 126–34
Heminges, Thomasine, 127
Hemingway, Ernest, 5, 197, 205, 276
hemp, 10
Henry IV, King of England, 73
Henry VIII, King of England, 51, 61, 65–67, 70–75, 78–79, 117–18
Henry VI (Shakespeare)
Pavier Quarto, 123, 126
Henry V (Shakespeare)
Pavier Quarto, 109, 123, 126
heretics, 60–61, 66, 69, 73, 76, 100, 280
Heywood, Thomas, 113–14, 129
high-speed rotary presses, 260
high spots, 5–6
Historia del popolo fiorentino (Rubeus edition, Venice, 1476), 247–48
Historia Naturalis (Pliny, Jenson edition, Venice, 1476), 247–48
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The (Gibbon), 281
History of the Quakers, The, 150–51, 155
Hitler, Adolph, 277
Holbein, Hans, 279–80
Holmes, Sherlock, 175, 280
holy relics, 54
Holy Trinity Church (Stratford-upon-Avon), 132
Homer, 130
Hood, Thomas, 218
hot metal typecasting, 239
Household Words, 184
Hoyns, Henry, 270
humanism, 84–85
human skin book leather, 16
Humery, Dr., 30
Hunne, Richard, 51–53, 58
hydrochloric acid, 13
hypertext novels, 187
illuminated manuscripts, 181
illustrations, 171, 182, 184–87. See also Blake, William; engravings; relief etching
Imlay, Fanny, 208
Imlay, Gilbert, 206–8
incunabula, 39–40
indenture, 138–39, 142
Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1609), 49
India, copyright and, 234
indulgences, 31, 45, 53–54
Industrial Age, 8, 240, 260
“Infant Joy” (Blake), 166
Inferno (Dante), Blake illustration, 193, 194
information age, first (1500s), 84–90
Ingrassia, Catherine, 209
ink, 10–13, 156
Blake and, 165
Galileo and, 12–13
Gutenberg and, 11
In Praise of Scribes (Trithemius), 21–22, 32–36, 38
Inquisition, 20, 76, 90, 98–100
intaglio printing, 164, 180
intellectual property, 196, 222–23. See also copyright
Internet, 234
Inventio Fortunata, 83
Io, map of, 105
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Irving, Washington, 219, 227
Isaiah, 165
ISBN system, 276
italic fonts, 92
Italy, 23, 59, 82
Ivanhoe (Scott), 224
Jackson, Shelley, 187
Jack the Ripper, 59
Jaggard, Isaac, 118, 129–30, 132–33
Jaggard, William, 114, 117–26
Crooke Mikrokosmographia and, 118–20
Passionate Pilgrim and, 114, 117, 120
Shakespeare First Folio (1622–23) and, 128–30, 132–33
Shakespeare “bad” or Pavier Quarto (1619) and, 117, 121–26
James I, King of England, 68, 121
Jazz Age, 263
Jefferson, Thomas, 273
Jenson, Nicolas, 23, 247–48
Jerusalem, maps and, 87, 93–94
Jesus of Nazarthe, 62, 169
Jews, 15, 246, 277–78
job printing, 45, 157–58
John Birch Society, 103–4
Johnson, Evelyn, 259
Johnson, Samuel, 199–201, 204
“Join, or Die” woodcut, 160–62
Jonson, Ben, 130–31
Works in folio format, 131, 133
Joyce, James, xi, 182, 265
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare),, 128
Jupiter, map of, 105
Kastan, David, 130, 133
Keimer, Samuel, 143, 148, 150–52, 155
Keith, William, 143–45
Kelmscott Press, 240–41, 245, 247
Kennedy, J.P., 231
Kindle, 36
King Lear (Shakespeare), 116, 282
“bad” or Pavier Quarto, 122, 126
King’s Men (formerly Chamberlain’s Men), 112, 120–21, 125–27
Knopf, Alfred A., 270
Koenig, Frederick, 239
Koenig rotary press, 238–39, 258
Köhler, David, 24
Ladies Monthly Museum, 205
“Lamb, The” (Blake), 166
Lan, Richard, 1, 17–18, 20
Latin
Ptolemy’s Geographia and, 86
typefaces and, 248
women’s education and, 202–3
Latinization of given names, 88
latitude, 86, 95, 130, 101–2
leather binding, 12, 14–16
Leaves of Grass (Whitman, 1856), 273
Leipzig
celebrations of invention of print, 23–24
Gutenberg Bibles looted in, 44
Lennon, John, 215
Lenox, James, 42–43
Leonora
Blake designs, 171–76, 174, 191
Schubert designs, 172–73, 173
Lessing, Doris, 178
Lewis and Clark expedition, 5
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, The (Dickens), 228–30, 232
Life of Charlotte Brontë (Gaskell), 201
lignin, 9
linen rags, 7–9
Linotype, 239, 258, 260
linseed oil, 12, 165
Literary Guild, 266–67
Literary Ladies of England, 205
“Little Black Boy, The” (Blake), 168–69, 170
Locke, John, 202
Lollards, 59, 61
London, Bishop of, 118–20
“London” (Blake), 182–84, 183
longitude, 86, 95, 101–2
Lord Chamberlain, 1619 edict on printing Shakespeare’s plays, 121, 123–27
love, 69, 282
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