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Reviews the book "The Palaeotypography of the French Renaissance: Selected Papers on Sixteenth-Century Typefaces," Vols. 1 and 2, by Hendrik D. L. Vervliet.

Reviews the book "'Paper Contestations' and Textual Communities in England, 1640-1675," by Elizabeth Sauer.

Such thoughts are perhaps uppermost on a perusal of Peterson's full bibliography of literary publications and lectures, appended to the essays distinguished here. If this essay collection anticipated the anniversaries of the Kelmscott Press and its I Chaucer i by a year, it arrived just in time for the fuller appreciation of William Morris's influences and his legacy. A book more sumptuously styled by its author would not be as tasteful a tribute to Morris's foliated ornaments, ample margins, and Troy and Golden types; though not vellum, its pages are a pleasure to handle (and Morris preferred paper anyway). [Extracted from the article]

In her last book Divine art, infernal machine. The reception of printing in the west from first impressions to be sense of an ending Elizabeth Eisenstein - already known in Italy for her previous works on the early days of printing - has further widened her research field by investigating diverse source materials: historical, literary, scientific and iconographic. Treading on the chronological path indicated by her book, the paper describes the most significant steps, personalities and peculiarities involved in the circulation of printed products and in the evolution of publishing within the western hemisphere, underlining the most significant and relevant phenomenons of each phase. Catching just a few of the most intriguing and original junctions, this synthetic and schematic picture is meant to address not just to specialists, but also to a wider and diversified audience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the books `An Early London Printing House at Work: Studies in the Bowyer Ledgers: With a Supplement to The Bowyer-Ornament Stock (1973), an Appendix on the Bowyer-Emonson Partnership, and `Bowyer's Paper Stock Ledger', by Keith Maslen and `An Index of Civilisation: Studies of Printng and Publishing History in Honour of Keith Maslen,' edited by R. Harvey, W. Kirsop and B.J. McMullin.

A review of the book "Printing the Middle Ages," by Siân Echard is presented.

The article reviews the book "Publishing, Politics, & Culture: The King’s Printers in the Reign of James I and VI," by Graham Rees and Maria Wakely.

The article reviews the book "Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies After Elizabeth L. Eisenstein," edited by Sabrina Alcorn Baron, Eric N. Lindquist, and Eleanor F. Shevlin, part of the Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book series.

Reviews the book 'Einblattdrucke des 15. und fruhen 16. Jahrhunderts. Probleme, Perspektiven, Fallstudien,' edited by Volker Honemann, Sabine Griese, Falk Eisermann and Marcus Ostermann.

The article reviews the book "MacKellar, Smiths and Jordan, Typographic Tastemakers of the Nineteenth Century," by Doug Clouse.