ABSTRACT
Mr. Hobson, in his Sandars Lectures, estimated the probable number who was working between 1450 and 1509 as from thirty to sixty, and he named eighteen specific binderies of that period as definitely English, and a further fifteen as probably or possibly English. Including Mr. Hobson’s eighteen and most of his ‘probables’, the author could name the work of some sixty distinguishable and definitely English binderies, stopping at the more convenient earlier date of 1500. Of the large number of fifteenth-century binders, and of the immensely greater number that there naturally were in the sixteenth, it is only possible to comment on a few of those either that have not been dealt with by other writers, or who have already been the subject of study but in regard to whom a little more information is now available.
