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A study of the history of the book trade (printing, bookselling, stationery and publishing) in Leicester, from the medieval beginnings of the trade (parchment making etc. ) up to cl 850. The development of the book trade is examined in its local, regional and national contexts, …

This thesis provides a chronological narrative of the major trends in the history of rebinding incunabula. There is currently very little academic literature that focuses on the practice of rebinding as a subset of book history, largely because it is regarded in bibliographic ci…