Transcriber’s note
Variable spelling and hyphenation have been retained. Minor punctuationinconsistencies have been silently repaired. The index appearsin the second volume. A list of the changes made can be found at the endof the book.
BOOKS AND THEIR MAKERSDURING THE MIDDLE AGES, Vol. I
BOOKS AND THEIR MAKERSDURING THE MIDDLE AGES
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.
The First Printer-Publishers of France.—TheLater Estiennes and Casaubon.—Caxton and the Introductionof Printing into England.—The Kobergersof Nuremberg.—Froben of Basel.—Erasmus and hisBooks.—Luther as an Author.—Plantin of Antwerp.—TheElzevirs of Leyden and Amsterdam.—Italy:Privileges and Censorship.—Germany: Privileges,and Book-Trade Regulations.—France: Privileges,Censorship, and Legislation.—England: Privileges,Monopolies, Censorship, and Legislation.—Conclusion.The Development of the Conception of LiteraryProperty.—Index to the Work.
BOOKS AND THEIR MAKERS
DURING THE MIDDLE AGES
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.
VOLUME I.
476-1600
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
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Copyright, 1896
BY
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
Entered at Stationers’ Hall, London
The Knickerbocker Press, New Rochelle, N. Y.
to
The Memory of My Wife
who served me for years both as eyesight
and as writing-arm
and by whose hand the following pages
were in large part transcribed
this work is dedicated
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PREFACE.
In a previous volume I undertook to describe, or ratherto indicate, the methods of the production and distributionof the earlier literature of the world and to sketch outthe relations which existed between the author and hispublic during the ages known, rather vaguely, as classic,that is, in the periods of literary activity in Greece andancient Rome. The materials for such a record were atbest but fragmentary, and it was doubtless the case that,in a first attempt of the kind, I failed to get before menot a few of the references which are sc