PREFACE TO CATALOGUE. PART A. IN issuing the first part of this Catalogue of Cambridge Books a few words of introduction seem necessary to explain its plan and object. In the year 1873, having become possessed of the book (Galen, De Temperamentis) that till then had been accepted as the first printed at Cambridge, we attempted to get information respecting all the known copies of this and of the other works printed by John Siberch, and the result of an examination of these books by the late Mr Henry Bradshaw has already appeared'. In furtherance of "An attempt to trace the succession of University printers" we have for some years been making a collection of the books printed at Cambridge by the successors of Siberch, and some notes on these Printers from Siberch downwards have been given to the Public'. With regard to this publication, it is necessary to state that it is only a bookseller's catalogue, not a Bibliography, and it therefore describes only the books we actually possess. It has however been Nour endeavour so to describe the books printed to 1700-by giving the titles in full, an exact collation with the sizes described by their form and not by their measurement, and by noting any apparent imperfection, even to the blank leaves at the beginning and end—as to make it bibliographically useful. 1 Introduction to the facsimile of Henry Bullock's Oratio habita Cantabrigiae of 1521. Macmillan and Bowes, 1886. * Bibliographical Notes on the University Printers from the commencement of Printing in Cambridge to the Present Time. Camb. Ant. Society Communications, Vol. v. p. 283. |