Dinesh's photos with the keyword: Andrew Pettergree

Illustrated Books of Hours were turned out in huge numbers for the use of pious lay people in the age before print. the main centres of production in Paris and the Low Countries also supplied a healthy export market.

Fig, 56 Copernicus, ‘De Revolutionibus’. On the title-page the owner, Willebrord Snell, affirms his support for Copernicus’s views and has disapproved of the cautious preface inserted by Andreas Oslander (without the author’s knowledge0, to the extent that Copernicus’s radical hypotheses ‘need not be true not even probable.’

The manuscript newsletter was a commercial service offered to those who needed regular access to up the date news. the digest of events from 1593 comes from the famous Fugger Newsletter in Germany en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_German_journalism

Erasmus's response to Luther's 'Bondage of Will' was prepared in furious haste for the Frankfurt fair. As brutally functional title-page shows, it needed little further advertisement than the names of the protagonists.

Humanist script: neat and clear, and the ancestor of the "Roman" type which modern books are printed. From a manuscript of Livy, C.1450

This outstanding surviving example of an early press shows the carriage open, exposing the type laid out on the forme* below. Hanging from the side of the press is the soft sponge used to ink the type. Beams anchor the press to the ceiling of the workshop * = a body of type secured in a chase for printing.

Figure 1 Boccaccio's vision of Petrarch. Petrarch was the hero and inspiration of generations of humanists: writers, scholars and book collectors