Utrecht University Library owns as many as about 900 books printed between 1450 and 1500, the first decades of printing in Europe. These so-called incunabula (books printed before 1501) will all be ...

but that’s the first thing you’ll have to take into consideration here. You want the fibers running up and down when the book is in a bookcase. Next the sheets are organized into stacks of ...

Per Harvard, the book's first owner, Dr. Ludovic Bouland ... and used it in a book binding that has been handled by many for more than a century," Harvard librarian Tom Hyry said in the Q&A.