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California Book Exhibition Illuminates Early Printing
The California State Book Exhibition at Berkeley showcased rare incunabula and early printers works loaned by private collectors and societies. Highlights include Gutenberg Bible facsimile pages, the Nuremberg Chronicle with wood cuts, and a second folio Shakespeare of 1682, with extensive remarks on bindings, rubrications, and regional printing history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella McNeeley
Berkeley
University
J Rowell
Cathius Austinus
Zell
Valerius’ Maximus
prius
schafer
partir Gutenberg
Nuremberg
Pleydenwerf
Wofe
Durer
ely
Plato
Anthony
Merlin
Hans Holbein
Price
British Museum
Japan
China
La River
Pittman
Kiamese
New World
Vatican
Pickering
Dante
Bodina
Thomas Cotes
London
Aldrich
Emersson
Longfellow
Powell and Whittier
Billows
Colimary
Farear
Difford
Smilie
Osgood & Co
Boston
California
Mexico
Brogin & Co
Clay, Horack & Co
Buffalo
N.Y
Elijah Walton
G. T. Benney
Thompson
Doxey & Co
San Francisco