St Albans Press
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The St Albans Press was the third printing press
set up in England, in 1479. It was situated in the Abbey Gateway, St. Albans
, a part of the Benedictine Monastery of St Albans. The name of the printer is unknown, only referred to as 'Sometime schoolmaster'.
There are eight known prints from the press:
Printing press
A printing press is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium , thereby transferring the ink...
set up in England, in 1479. It was situated in the Abbey Gateway, St. Albans
Abbey Gateway, St. Albans
The Abbey Gateway, St. Albans was built in 1365 and is the last remaining building of the Benedictine Monastery at St. Albans, Hertfordshire....
, a part of the Benedictine Monastery of St Albans. The name of the printer is unknown, only referred to as 'Sometime schoolmaster'.
There are eight known prints from the press:
- Elegantiolae, Augustinus Datus, about 1479.
- De modis significandi, seu Grammatica speculativa, Thomas de Erfordia, 1480.
- Margarita eloquentiae, sive Rhetorica nova, Laurentius Gulielmus Traversanus de Saona, 1480.
- Quaestiones super Physica Aristotelis, Johannes Canonicus, 1481.
- Exempla Sacrae Scripturae ex utroque Testamento collecta, Nicolaus de Hanapis, 1481.
- Scriptum in logica sua, Antonius Andreae, about 1481-82.
- The Chronicles of England, about 1486.
- The Book of St. Albans (Book of Hawking, Hunting, and Heraldry), not before 1486