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History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book

Woodcuts & illustrations depicting early printing operations

An image from The British Museum
Typographus.  Der Buchdrucker (The Printer)/ Panoplia omnium illiberalium mechanicarum ... (Book of trades)

Typographus.  Der Buchdrucker (The Printer)/ Panoplia omnium illiberalium mechanicarum ... (Book of trades)

  • A printing office of the sixteenth century.
    Ahrens, Felix
    Das Buch der Erfindungen : Gewerbe und Industrien, vol. 10 p. 143
    Leipzig : O. Spamer, 1897-
    Available via HathiTrust Digital Library.  http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101049470683;view=1up;seq=163

  • Berner, Ernst
    Geschichte des preussischen Staates, (Verlagsanstalt für Kunst und Wissenschaft, 1891) 179
    "Inneres einer Buchdruckerei um die Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts, Holzschnitt von Abraham von Weerdt (thätig um 1636-1680), auf etwa die Hälfte verkleinert."
    Available via HathiTrust Digital Library.  http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015014820719;view=1up;seq=331
    or

  • Geschichte des preussischen Staates, (2nd ed.; Verlagsanstalt für Kunst und Wissenschaft, 1896) 166
    Available via HathiTrust Digital Library.  http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3544654;view=1up;seq=262;size=12

     

  • Bibliopola novus: Bilder u. Texte as d. Welt d. Buchhandels :  Festschrift f. Sigfred Taubert z. 60. Geb. am 8. Sep. 1974: tabula gratulatoria
    Twelve prints from the collection of Ernst Hauswedell, with texts by Sabine Solf.
    Hamburg:  Hauswedell, 1974
    Rare Book and Maunscript Library- Reference Collection. NC1763.B6.B52

     

  • Clough, Shepard B.
    Printing press of the seventeenth century, pl. VII following p. 192 in, The Economic History of Europe
    Full text available via Hathi Trust Library

    Printing press of the seventeenth century

  • Kusukawa, Sachiko
    Picturing the book of nature:  image, text, and argument in the sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany
    Chicago; London:  University of Chicago Press, 2012
    Rare Book and Maunscript Library- Reference Collection. QH46.5.K87 2012

  • La Calle, Jean de
    Interior of a print shop, p. 1 in,  Histoire de l'imprimerie et de la librairie: où l'on voit son origine & son progrés, jusqu'en 1689 : divise'e en deux livres (Paris : Chez Jean de la Caille ... : Imprime´ par Pierre Le Mercier aux de´pens de Jean de la Caille, 1689)
    Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Rare Book Collection. Z124 .L13 1689

  • McKitterick, David
    Interior of an eighteenth century printing house, p. 175 in, Print, manuscript and the search for order, 1450-1830 (Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003)
    Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628). Z124 .M39 2003

  • Meggs, Philip B.
    Woodcut of printing press in 1568, p. 64 in, A History of Graphic Design, 3rd ed. (New York:  John Wiley and Sons, 1998)
    Van Pelt Library. Z246 .M43 1998

  • Moran, James
    Print shops prior to the year 1785, figs. 1-16 in, Printing presses; history and development from the fifteenth century to modern times (Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1973)
    Van Pelt Library. Z249 .M748 1973

  • Newman, Jane O.
    Interiors of early print shops, pp. 96, 99 and 101 in, “The Word Made Print:  Luther's 1522 New Testament in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” Representations 11 (Summer 1985) 95-133
    Van Pelt Library. NX1 .R46
    Fine Arts Library. NX1 .R46
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2928428.pdf?_=1460658467032

  • Oswald, John Clyde
    Title page of a book printed in 1522, p. 335 in, A History of Printing.  Its development through five hundred years (New York; London:  D. Appleton, 1928)
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z124 .O86 1928
    Available via HathiTrust Digital Library http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/00692201.html  

  • Sachs, Hans
    Eygentliche Beschreibung aller Stände auff Erden, hoher und nidriger, geistlicher und weltlicher, aller Künsten, Handwercken und Händeln [Ständebuch von 1568 mit Holzschnitten von Jost Amman]
    Frankfurt am Main :  S. Feyerabents, 1568
    Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Rare Book Collection. HT690.G3 S23 1568
    Available via HathiTrust Digital Library.  http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89006409585
    http://www.digitalis.uni-koeln.de/Amman/amman_index.html

  • Taubert, Sifred
    Bibliopola:  Bilder und Texte aus der Welt des Buchhandels = Pictures and texts about the book trade = Images et texte sur la librarie
    Hambrug:  E. Hauswedell, 1966
    Rare Book and Maunscript Library- Reference Collection folio. Z280.T3

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