Book of Hours. Tours, ca. 1470. (Ms. 7).
Albrecht Durer. Apocalypse.
Nuremberg: A. Durer, 1511.
The song of songs which is Solomon's.
Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1902.
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The tradition of the book in the Western World is well documented in the Watkinson.
Highlights include:
- Medieval manuscripts and manuscript leaves, 12th- 15th century
- 3,000-4,000 early printed books (15th-17th centuries)
- Trumbull-Prime collection of early illustrated books, especially strong in 16th-century German and Italian materials, including works of Albert Durer, emblem books and Florentine and Venetian book illustration
- ca. 10,000 18th-century titles
- 19th-century illustrated books on a wide range of subjects and from many lands, including an extensive Cruikshank collection
- Alphabet books (ca. 350 titles)
- Fine printing from the Private Press collection including:
- a nearly complete run of the Ashendene Press
- classic titles from the Private Press movement
- 100+ contemporary artists' books and examples of fine printing
- Examples of fine bookbinding (15th-20th centuries)
- Extensive secondary holdings on the history of printing and bookbinding
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