[Ads-l] Antedating of "Incunabula" (Books)

[Shapiro, Fred]

incunabula (OED, 2. 1861)

1835 _Encyclopedia Americana_ VI. 552 (Google Books)  INCUNABULA ... is a term applied to those editions of books which were printed previously to the year 1500. ... these two writers had regard to the history of printing in general, rather than to the history of the incunabula in particular.

Fred Shapiro

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