Re-Inventing the Book

Timeline

Key points of publishing

(With emphasis on editions and historical figures referred in the book)¹

From the Mid-15th Century, Renaissance

c. 1453, Mainz, Invention of printing by Gutenberg, printing of the Gutenberg Bible, the first printed book.

Last decades of the century: development of the typology of the book.

c. 1460–1510, development of the title page.²

The hand press³ was used till the end of the 18th century.

1486, Bernhard von Breydenbach, Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam.

1493, Schedel, H., Liber Chronicarum, Anton Koberger, Nuremberg. Famous edition, known as the “Nuremberg chronicle”, combining text and image, lavishly illustrated with woodblocks by M. Wolgemut and W. Pleynderwurff.

Aldus Manutius (1449–1515), publishing activity in ...