Fragment of an unpublished essay on printing by William Camden
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Journal article
Creator (person)
Dunn, R. D.
Date published
November 1986
Abstract
THE known facts concerning the origins of printing from movable type in western Europe have been ably gathered and assessed by recent scholars and there is a large measure of agreement among them, but the information available to William Camden in the sixteenth century is interesting both where it agrees and where it disagrees. It would be wrong to contend that this fragment, by itself, is sufficient grounds to modify our data. On several points his information is demonstrably inaccurate or simply ambiguous, and since he never completed the essay it cannot be said to represent his final thoughts. Yet while Camden was no bibliographer in the sense that term has come to mean today, his reputation as a scholar and the degree of accuracy in his published works make it worth considering his observations, however brief or incomplete. My object here is to publish his remarks along with annotation to qualify or elucidate points of difficulty.
Journal title
British Library Journal
Volume
12
Issue
2
Publisher
British Library
Place of publication
UK
ISSN
0305-5167
eISSN
2056-2829
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