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Title: Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: October 9, 2005 [EBook #16844]

Language: English

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[upturned A] A printed upside down
[=e] e with macron
[oe] oe ligature

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found at the end of the text.

CATALOGUE OF EARLY PRINTED BOOKS

CATALOGUE

OF THE

WILLIAM LORING ANDREWS

COLLECTION OF EARLY BOOKS

IN THE

LIBRARY OF YALE UNIVERSITY

[Printer's Seal]

NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
MCMXIII

COPYRIGHT, 1913
BY
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Printed from type October, 1913. 300 copies

PREFACE

The collection of early printed books presented to the Library of Yale
University in 1894 by Mr. William Loring Andrews, of New York, was
formed to illustrate the first century of printing, which is a better
boundary for the survey than the half-century ending with the year 1500,
more often chosen. The latter, the so-styled cradle period of the art,
is wanting in real definition, being at most a convenient halting place,
not a completed stage, whereas at the middle of the sixteenth century
the printed book of the better class ha