1 Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin, The Coming of the Book, trans. David Gerard (London: Verso, 1976), 182. As early as 1480, 110 towns in western Europe had printing shops.
2 Gina L. Greco and Christine M. Rose, eds., The Good Wife’s Guide (Le Ménagier de Paris): A Medieval Household Book (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009).
3 Les memoires de Messire Olivier de la Marche (Ghent: Gerard de Salenson, 1567).
5 Platina [Bartolomeo Sacchi], De Honesta Voluptate; the First Dated Cookery Book [1475], trans. Elizabeth Buermann Andrews (St. Louis: Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, 1967).