Exhibition Lecture | Incunabula of the Second Printing Revolution SOLD OUT

Jeremy Norman will lecture on the complex parameters defining incunabula of the second printing revolution, a period marked by the adopted of mechanized technologies in book production. A series of overlapping innovations in steam power, papermaking, typesetting, and bookbinding throughout the nineteenth century transformed the rate and quality of book production, leading to an explosion of reading material in continental Europe and the United States. Jeremy will discuss the difficulties of identifying the earliest examples of these new technologies in print.