Finding one of the oldest examples of printing in Britain: the story of the Caxton leaf
Written by Erika Delbecque, UMASCS Librarian, as part of the 2017 Being Human festival: Lost and Found. The leaf on my desk was stained, torn in places, and fairly unremarkable. Unlike other loose leaves from the fifteenth century that I had been working on, which mostly contained standard texts that circulated widely at the time, the […]