Incunabula
Collection
Free Library of Philadelphia
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Incunabula are books printed before the year 1501. In 1899, P.A.B. Widener presented the Free Library with its very first rare book collection, 500 incunabula. Assembled by the English bibliographer Walter A. Copinger, the collection includes a wide representation of the 15th-century printing presses of continental Europe. You can now view more than 800 of these precious books at the Free Library.
Free Library of Philadelphia
More info
Incunabula are books printed before the year 1501. In 1899, P.A.B. Widener presented the Free Library with its very first rare book collection, 500 incunabula. Assembled by the English bibliographer Walter A. Copinger, the collection includes a wide representation of the 15th-century printing presses of continental Europe. You can now view more than 800 of these precious books at the Free Library.