Printing

A Library of Congress Exhibition focusing on 15th and 16th century woodcuts.

Although numerous books, both theoretical and practical, have been published on the subject of bookbinding and the conservation of archival materials, there would seem to be a need for one that approaches the subject by examining the meaning and usage of the many terms, expressions, and names pertaining to the various subjects.

Although this dictionary is intended first and foremost for those actively involved in one or more aspects of the overall field of bookbinding and book conservation, it is perhaps no less intended for those working in related fields where the many terms and expressions relating to the overall field may be less familiar and even more confusing.

A database of drawings and graphics of mechanical devices from Renaissance and late medieval sources.

A series of engravings that bring to us the very clear representation of the crafts and technology of his time, and the relative importance which these discoveries and inventions had in the mind of a well-informed layman of the 16th century.

New Discoveries includes illustrations of: The Lodestone, The Magnet; The Astrolabe; America; Gunpowder; Printing Books; Iron Clocks; Guaiacum (a New World remedy for syphilis); Distillation; Silk, or the Silkworm; Stirrups, or Foot Rests; the Watermill; the Winged Mill (windmills); Olive Oil; Sugar; Oil Colors (oil-painting); Spectacles (eyeglasses); Longitudes of the Earth Found from the Deviation of the Magnet from the Pole; Polishing Armor; Engraving on Copper; and the travels & discoveries of Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and Ferdinand Magellan.

Dedicated to discussing Printing and Typography in the SCA. Topics include Letterpress Printing, woodcuts, and etchings. We also discuss methods of making modern printed materials (composed on computers) look more period, through the use of period typefaces and scanned art.

By Henri Bouchot of the National Library, Paris, with a treatise on the art of collecting and describing early printed books and a Latin-English and English-Latin topographical index of the earliest printing places.