‎Vander MEERSCH Désiré-Joseph Dr. :‎
‎Audenaerdsche Drukpers 1479 - 1830.‎

‎4. Audenaerde ( Oudenaarde ) , Boek-en Steendrukkey Van Bevernaege-van Eechaute, Krekelput. 1864, in-8°, lithographic frontispiece portrait + 222 pp + 9 pp ( postface by Edmond Vander Straeten ), Publisher's printed boards. (Inner joint broken, boards dustsoiled). Still a good copy with stainless interior. Very rare and early study on the history of printing in the small Flemish town of Oudenaarde. Printing started in 1479, well before Ghendt and only 6 years after the first book produced in the Low Countries (in Aalst in 1473).‎

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