A Catalogue of Fifteenth–Century Printed Books in Glasgow Libraries and Museums…

A Catalogue of Fifteenth-Century Printed Books in Glasgow Libraries and Museums [2 volume set]Author(s): Jack Baldwin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: D.S. Brewer\nISBN-13: 9781843844679, 978-1843844679\nSynopsis\n2022 ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography - First Prize Winner\n\nThis catalogue of the substantial collection of the incunabula at the University of Glasgow Library, concentrates, in addition to the usual data, on the copy-specific aspects of the book such as provenance, use, binding and decoration.\n\nThe University of Glasgow Library has one of the richest rare book collections in the UK outside London, Oxford, Cambridge and Manchester. There are 1042 incunabula (including many unique items). As witnesses of the first print revolution, these books are fascinating on many levels - as innovative survivors of the technological shift from manuscript to print, as late medieval texts available in duplicate to a commercial mass.