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I work with old books, books published in the late fifteenth century by artisans who viewed the book trade as a craft involving meticulous preparation of paper, type, and ink for subsequent sale. Printing was a labor requiring arduous physical work by a group of men (and women) who assembled the tome page by page with the result that they produced a handsome volume that could be perused and enjoyed over and over again. The images top and at left were taken during a visit to the Royal Albert Library in Brussels where I consulted an exemplar of the Historia de la linda Melosina published in Toulouse by Johann Parix and Stefan Clebat in 1489. The book is the only compete witness to this edition. Other extant editions are housed in the British Library, London, and in the Hispanic Society, New York City.