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| His Catalogue of Books printed in the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge Libraries 1967, despite its apprently restirctive title, is the most extensive complete available list of 16th-century European books, a fact frequently acknowledged by booksellers with the formula 'not in ?' |
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| During the last century, publishers extended the practice of circulating (these) of a new book to reviewers, chosen booksellers, judges of book-clubs, etc., besides those provided to their own travellers 'subscribing' it to the trade. Such copies are normally either final proofs of the first sheets to be gathered of the main run. |
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| These have engendered as much heat and argument as any factor in book-collecting. Less common since 1915 except as printed on the verso side of title page |
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| A style of binding with thick boards, grooved on the edges and flush with the trimmed leaves of the book, the TAIL- and HEADBANDS therefore protruding above and below the boards. Originally designed to be kept in chests; do not sit easily on shelves. |
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| This great Venetian printer initiated the printing of the Greek classics and the series of POCKET classics, for which he is chiefly famous. Device of dolphin/anchor. |
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