Creator
Polain, Marie-Louis.
Title
Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique [manuscript],
Date
ca. 1920–1933.
Description
In 1920 noted bibliographer Marie-Louis Polain (1866–1933) was asked to compile a catalogue of the incunabula in Belgian libraries, and to that end Polain began to collect typographic samples of early printed books from Belgium, photographic negatives, and detailed notes for each work. Polain published his Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des biblio-thèques de Belgique in 1932. The extensive archive of this ambitious bibliographical project—some 25 linear feet of material—is one of the most frequently consulted archival collections in the Grolier Club Library.
Source
Gift of Hans P. Kraus, 1979.