The English Provincial Printers, Stationers and 

 Bookbinders to I557> '^^''^ Sandars Lectures, 191 1. 

 By E. Gordon D^ijf, M.A. Oxon., sometime Sandars 

 Reader 171 Bibliography in the University of Cambridge. 



Crown 8vo. pp. x+153. With 4 plates. Price a,s. net. 



Extract from the Preface 



The work of the provincial printers, stationers and book- 

 binders forms a subject of the greatest interest, and one which 

 has hitherto hardly received adequate attention. 



The presses of the two University towns, Oxford and 

 Cambridge, have been very fully treated, and, in a lesser 

 degree, those of St Albans and York, but with these exceptions 

 the remaining towns have been curiously neglected, and our 

 knowledge concerning such important printing centres as 

 Ipswich, Worcester and Canterbury seems to have advanced 

 but little since Herbert issued the third volume of his 

 Typographical Antiquities over a hundred and twenty years 



There is still much to be learned about these provincial 

 presses. The careers of the printers, their types, their wood- 

 cuts, their ornaments have still to be traced and a number 

 of books which have disappeared within recent years remain 

 to be re-discovered. 



CONTENTS 



I. Oxford 



II. St Albans, York and Hereford 



III. Oxford Second Press and Cambridge 



IV. Tavistock, Abingdon, St Albans Second Press, Ipswich, Wor- 



cester, Canterbury, Exeter, " Winchester " and " Greenwich " 

 Appendix I. List of books printed by provincial printers or for pro- 

 vincial stationers 

 Appendix II. List of Authorities 



Athenaeum. An excellent little book, written with an authority and a know- 

 ledge of early English printed books which no one else of the present 

 day possesses, and is devoted to a subject which has hitherto, to use the 

 author's words, hardly received adequate attention. It is composed of 

 the four Sandars Lectures for 191 1 in the University of Cambridge, 

 together with Appendixes giving a list of books printed by or for 

 provincial printers and stationers, and a useful Bibliography of the 

 subject. ...Those who know Mr Duff's work will require no commendation 

 on our part to send them to his pages, and by this time the number 

 must include every one interested in the history of English book 

 production. 



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