A Study of the Conditions of the Production and Distribution of Literature from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the Close of the Seventeenth Century.

By GEO. HAVEN PUTNAM, A.M.

Author of “Authors and Their Public in Ancient Times,” “The Question of Copyright,” etc., etc.

In two volumes, 8º, cloth extra (sold separately), each $2.50

Volume I. 476-1500. (Ready April, 1896.)

PART I.—BOOKS IN MANUSCRIPT.

I.—The Making of Books in the Monasteries.

Introductory.—Cassiodorus and S. Benedict.—The Earlier Monkish Scribes.—The Ecclesiastical Schools and the Clerics as Scribes.—Terms Used for Scribe Work.—S. Columba, the Apostle to Caledonia.—Nuns as Scribes.—Monkish Chroniclers.—The Work of the Scriptorium.—The Influence of the Scriptorium.—The Literary Monks of England.—The Earlier Monastery Schools.—The Benedictines of the Continent.—The Libraries of the Monasteries and their Arrangements for the Exchange of Books.

II.—Some Libraries of the Manuscript Period.

III.—The Making of Books in the Early Universities.

IV.—The Book-Trade in the Manuscript Period.

Italy.—Books in Spain.—The Manuscript Trade in France.—Manuscript Dealers in Germany.

PART II.—THE EARLIER PRINTED BOOKS.

I.—The Renaissance as the Forerunner of the Printing-Press.

II.—The Invention of Printing and the Work of the First Printers of Holland and Germany.

III.—The Printer-Publishers of Italy.

Volume II. 1500-1709. (Ready September, 1896.)

IV.—The Printer-Publishers of France.

V.—The Later Estiennes and Casaubon.

VI.—Caxton and the Introduction of Printing into England.

VII.—The Kobergers of Nuremberg.

VIII.—Froben of Basel.

IX.—Erasmus and his Books.

X.—Luther as an Author.

XI.—Plantin of Antwerp.

XII.—The Elzevirs of Leyden and Amsterdam.

XIII.—Italy: Privileges and Censorship.

XIV.—Germany: Privileges and Book-Trade Regulations.

XV.—France: Privileges, Censorship, and Legislation.

XVI.—England: Privileges, Censorship, and Legislation.

XVII.—Conclusion: The Development of the Conception of Literary Property.

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