Re: early printed prefaces

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Bob Maxwell asks:
"Has any work been done on the prefaces
printers added to their books
in the 15th and 16th centuries?"

In case you are not familiar with it,
the best book to look at is:
"Prefaces to the First Editions
of the Greek and Roman Classics
and of the Sacred Scriptures. Collected
and edited by BERIAH BOTFIELD" (London, 1861)
Botfield reprints these
prefaces, in the original Greek and Latin,
in an imposing quarto of 650-plus pages,
and his preface offers an ideal starting point
for your research.
Fred Schreiber
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