| | Year | | Event | Keyword |
| | 1473 | | Ducali bindings, from 1473-1600, bindings made for the edicts, | DUCALI |
| | decrees and governor's commisions issued by the Doges of Venice |
| | 1475 | | Belgium, First books printed by Colard Mansion of Bruges | MANSION, COLARD |
| | 1477 | | Intaglio. First book with intaglio illustrations 'Il Monte Sancto di Dio' | INTAGLIO |
| | published in Florence |
| | 1479 | | Carpi, Ugo da, d.1533, leading engraver of Venice and Rome, likely | CARPI |
| | one of the developers, inventors of chiarusco printing |
| | 1479 | | Grolier, Jean, d.1565. Famous French bibliophile, famous for the | GROLIER |
| | bindings of his books |
| | 1482 | | Poeticon Astronomicon by Erhard Ratdolt, illustrated with allegorical | POETICON ASTRONOMICON |
| | woodcuts |
| | 1483 | | Cologne Bible by Anton Koberger of Nuremberg | KOBERGER |
| | 1486 | | Caxton, William prints his first books in England, in Westminster | CAXTON |
| | 1486 | | Chevalier Libere, printed 1486 by Gotfred van Os at Gouda (book | CHEVALIER LIBERÉ |
| | deals with Charles the Bold) |
| | 1489 | | Denmark. Book printing came to Copenhagen with the arrival of the | OS, GOTFRIED VAN |
| | Dutch printer Gotfried van Os, who called himself Gotfred of Ghemen |
| | 1490 | | Blado, Antonio, d.1567. Printer in Rome, had cursive type face | BLADO |
| | designed by Arrighi. |
| | 1490 | | Blado, Antonio, d.1567. Printer in Rome, had cursive type face | ARRIGHI |
| | designed by Arrighi. |
| | 1493 | | The earliest known etchings are by Daniel Hopfer, active at | ETCHING |
| | Augsburg between 1493 and 1536, the Swiss Urs Graf, and Dürer, |
| | who did five etchings on iron, among them The Agony in the |
| | Garden, and The Cannon. Lucas van Leyden (1489-1533) also used |
| | this technique on a few rare occasions. The earliest Italian etching |
| | is by Parmigianino (1503-1540), whose prints are more sketchy and |
| | spontaneous than those of the Northern artists. Etching is above all |
| | the medium of Rembrandt: with it he reached a depth and |
| | universality of expression never equaled in the history of prints. |
| | 1493 | | Hartmann Schedel's Weltchronik published with illustrations by | SCHEDEL |
| | Wolgemut |
| | 1493 | | Leeu, Gerard, d.1493, printer at Gouda, Holland | LEEU |
| | 1494 | | Brant. Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff published, illustrated with | NARRENSCHIFF |
| | woodcuts, among them the famous Bookfool woodcut by Dürer (?) |
| | 1494 | | Narrenschiff, Ship of Fools, by Sebastian Brant, published by | BRANT, SEBASTIAN |
| | Bergmann von Olpe, Basle, illustrated with 114 woodcuts. |
| | 1494 | | Brant. Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff published, illustrated with | SHIP OF FOOLS |
| | woodcuts, among them the famous Bookfool woodcut by Dürer (?) |
| | 1494 | | DAS NARRENSCHIFF by Sebastian Brant, first publication. Within | SHIP OF FOOLS |
| | fifteen years the work appeared in one Latin, three French, one |
| | Dutch, one Low German and an English version. One reason often |
| | cited to explain Brant's far-reaching appeal was that he wrote in |
| | short chapters, mixed his *fools* skillfully, and maintained a fluid |
| | style that engaged his readers. |
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