| YEAR | KEYWORD | EVENT |
|---|---|---|
| 637 | CAESAREA | Caesarea Library destroyed by Arabs conquering Palestine (library was orignally founded by church father Origen who died 309 AD) |
| 1425 | CALLIGRAPHY | Mansion, Colard, d.1484, one of the leading calligraphers in Bruges, Belgium |
| 1521 | CAMBRIDGE | Cambridge University Press founded. |
| 750 | CANTERBURY | Canterbury School of manuscript illumination, active until 13th century. |
| 1465 | CANTICUM CANTICORUM | Canticum Canticorum, illustrated by Memling(?) or Van der Weijden(?) |
| 1479 | CARPI | Carpi, Ugo da, d.1533, leading engraver of Venice and Rome, likely one of the developers, inventors of chiarusco printing |
| 1516 | CARPI, UGO DA | (1480-1532), obtained from the Signoria of Venice the privilege for the chiaroscuro woodcut, which he claimed to have invented, even though none of his woodcuts is dated earlier than 1518. |
| 1901 | CARTER | Carter, Harry, born |
| 1693 | CASLON | Caslon, William, d.1766. English typefounder. |
| 1590 | CATHACH | Cathach Psalter, attributed to St.Columba, Irish manuscript. |
| 1460 | CATHOLICON | Catholicon of Johannes Baldus printed by Schöffer |
| 1420 | CAXTON | Caxton, William, born. |
| 1486 | CAXTON | Caxton, William prints his first books in England, in Westminster |
| 1530 | CERVANTES | Miguel de Cervantes (1513-1616), author of DON QUIXOTE |
| 1887 | CHAGALL, ,ARC | (1887-1985). Born in Vitebsk. Studied in St. Petersburg with Léon Bakst. Paris 1910-1914 asociated with the Cubists. Back in Russia from 1914-1922. Studied graphic techniques with Hermann Struck in Germany. Books: Mein Leben (1923); Les Ames Mortes (1948); Arabian Nights (1951); La Fontaine Fables (1952); Bible (1956). |
| 1770 | CHATTERTON | Chatterton, Thomas. (1752-1770). English poet, known for his literary frauds distinguished by poetic genius. He wrote a number of poems which he pretended were the work of one Thomas Rowley, a non-existent monk of the 15th century. |
| 1400 | CHAUCER | Chaucer died |
| 1893 | CHAUCER | Kelmscott Chaucer published |
| 1868 | CHAUCER SOCIETY | Chaucer Society founded. Active until 1912. |
| 1486 | CHEVALIER LIBERÉ | Chevalier Libere, printed 1486 by Gotfred van Os at Gouda (book deals with Charles the Bold) |
| 1507 | CHIAROSCURO | Chiaroscuro, first by Georg Lucas Cranach. |
| -213 | CHIN TAIN SHIHUANGTI | Chin Tain Shihuangti, emporer of China, issued an edict that all books should be destroyed (manuscripts on bamboo) |
| 1888 | CHIRICO, GIORGIO DE | (1888-1978). Greece, of Italian parentage. Art school of Athens Polytechnic Institute and Munich Academy. In Paris associated with the Cubists. 1938 settled in Rome. Books: Le Mystère Laïc (1928); Calligrammes (1930). |
| 1811 | CHISWICK | Chiswick Press founded. |
| 1726 | CHODOWIECKI | Chodowiecki, Daniel Nikolaus, d.1801. German artis-engraver. |
| 1689 | CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN | At her death in 1689 her library, known as the Bibliotheca Alessandrina (she considered herself a female Alexander the Great), was transferred to the Vatican Library. |
| 1836 | CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY | Chromolithography by Gottfried Engelmann |
| 1837 | CHROMOLITOGRAPHY | Chromolitography, first time use of this term |
| 1900 | CLAUDIN | Histoire de l'Imprimerie en France au Xve et au XVIe siecle by Anatole Claudin |
| 1913 | CLAVÉ, ANTONI | Spanish. Barcelone art school. In Paris since 1942. Books: La Dame de Pique (Pushkin, 1946P; Coplas (1955). |
| 1435 | CLEVES | Hours of Catherine of Cleves made in Utrecht, Holland |
| 1921 | CLOISTER PRESS | Cloister Press founded. |
| 1817 | CLYMER | Columbian Press by George Clymer |
| 1870 | COCKERELL | Cockerell, Douglas, d.1945. Leading English teacher handbookbinding |
| -100 | CODEX | 1st C. AD By the end of this century, the form of the book had largely changed from the scroll to the codex. |
| 715 | CODEX AMITINUS | Codex Amitinus, manuscript of the Vulgate written in Northumbrian uncial. |
| -100 | CODICES | 1st C. BC - 1st C. AD The Romans substituted skin, or membranae, for the wood panels in codices. It is unclear just when this was done and whether membranae was similar to Medieval parchment or to the thin leather of the Dead Sea Scrolls, but it is known that there are no examples or records of this substitution prior to the Romans. Later, Romans used codices to record laws and rules of order, lending the name codes or codicils to such documents. |
| 1467 | COLONNA | Hypnerotomachia Poliphili written by Francesco Colonna |
| 896 | COLOPHON | Colophon, oldest known manuscript colophon, in Books of the Prophets written by Moses ben Asher in Tiberias. |
| 1930 | COLOPHON, The | Colophon, the. First issue, until 1940 (1948-1950 New Colophon) |
| 1804 | COLOR PRINTING | Baxter, George (d. 1867). Patented letterpress process for color printing |
| 1838 | COLOR PRINTING | Knight, Charles, patented a method of color printing in which four relief blocks of wood or metal rotated and impressed in turn on to a sheet of paper |
| 1457 | COLOR PRINTING | Colour printing, earliest example in Mainz Psalter |
| 1549 | COMMON PRAYER | Book of Common Prayer, first complete edition in England. |
| 1453 | CONSTANTINE | Constantine library. Many books were burnt in this year (Constantinople captured by the Turks) or carried away and sold |
| 1709 | COPYRIGHT | Copyright Act in England |
| 1952 | COPYRIGHT | Copyright. World Copyright Union founded in Geneva |
| 1458 | CORVINUS | Corvinus, Matthias, d.1490, King of Hungary, famous bookcollector |
| 1936 | CORVINUS PRESS | Corvinus Press founded by Viscount Carlow |
| 1472 | CRANACH | Cranach, Lucas, d.1553. German painter and woodcutter. |
| 1507 | CRANACH | Chiaroscuro, first by Georg Lucas Cranach. |
| 1912 | CRANACH PRESSE | Cranach Presse founded by Harry Graf von Kessler. |
| 1903 | CUALA PRESS | Cuala Press founded by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats. Press stopped activities in 1948, revived in 1969 |
| 1902 | CUALA PRESS | Dun Emer Press founded (later to be the Cuala Press) by Elizabeth Yeats (sister of the poet), Ireland |
| 1924 | CUMULATIVE LIST BRITISH BOOKS | Whitaker's Cumulative Book List of British books |
| 1928 | CUNARD | Hours Press founded by Nancy Cunard at La Chapelle, France |
| 1863 | CURWEN PRESS | Curwen Press founded. |
| 687 | CUTHBERT, GOSPEL OF St. JOHN | Undoubtedly one of history's most dramatic book exhumations involves a manuscript copy of the Gospel of St.John that was buried in the year 687 with the body of St. Cuthbert, bishop near Lindesfarne. Two hundred years later Danish invaders sacked the holy compund, carrying with them the remains of Cuthbert. In 1104 the carved wooden casket was opened and the Gospel, a manuscript written in uncial, was found perfectly preserved. |
| 1830 | CYLINDER | Drum Cylinder Press by R.Hoe |
| 1812 | CYLINDER PRESS | Cylinder Press, First built in Britain by Friedrich Konig |
| 1774 | CYLINDER PRESS | König, Friedrich, d.1833. Inventor of the cylinder press |
| 1782 | CYLINDER PRINTING | Dickinson, John, d.1869, inventor of the cylinder printing machine |
| 1787 | DAGUERRE | Daguerre, Louis Jacq. Mande, d.1851, worked together with the inventor of photography, Niepce (d.1833) and developed daguerreotype process |
| 1833 | DAGUERREOTYPE | Daguerreotype invented |
| 1472 | DANTE | DIVINE COMEDY, first printed edition of Dante's epic poem |
| 1768 | DARLINGTON PRESS | Darlington Press, private press, established atThe Grange ny George Allen |
| 1828 | DE VINNE | De Vinne, Theodore, d.1914, American printer, co-founder of the Grolier Club |
| -150 | DEAD SEA SCROLLS | 150 BC - 40 AD Approximate dates of the Hebrew and Aramaic documents, Biblical and nonbiblical, found as scrolls sealed in ceramic pots in caves near the Dead Sea in 1957. Some are written on thin, whitish leather similar but not identical to parchment |
| 1827 | DEBERNEY ET PEIGNOT | Deberny and Peignot, largest typefounding firm of France established, based on association by the novelist Balzac and printer Andre Barbier |
| 1514 | DENMARK CHRONICLE | Denmark Chronicle printed by Ascenius in Paris |
| 1934 | DETECTIVE AND MYSTERY | the first bookseller's catalogue devoted exclusively to detective fiction as a collecting specialty. According to Otto Penzler, in his "Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection," this was the 1934 catalogue of London dealer George Bates entitled "Murder--Catalogue the Seventh of Rare and Interesting Books Illustrating the Development of the Detective and Mystery Story." |
| 1648 | DEVIL'S BIBLE | Devil's Bible. When the Swedes stormed Prague in 1648 they took(stole) many books including the rich collection of the Bohemian kings at Hradschin, many vellum manuscripts, including the Devil's Bible |
| 1782 | DICKINSON | Dickinson, John, d.1869, inventor of the cylinder printing machine |
| 1730 | DIDOT | Didot, Francois-Ambroise, d.1804, oldest of Didot family, famous French printing family |
| 1601 | DIJCK, ELZEVIER | Dijck, Christoffel van, d.1669, Amsterdam punchcutter, in 1673 his foundry was acquired by Daniel Elzevier |
| 1440 | DISCIPLINARIUM PLATONIS EPITOME | Koberger, Anton, d.1513. Printer in Neuremberg since 1470. First dated book Disciplinarum Platonis Epitome, 1472 |
| 1935 | DOLPHIN | Dolphinn, The, American journal about the making of books, published until 1941 |
| 1839 | DONNÉ, ALFRED | Head of the Charité Clinic in Paris, Dr. Alfred Donné, was the first to announce success with etching daguerreotype plates. |
| 1900 | DOVES PRESS | Doves Press established at Hammersmith, London by Cobden-Sanderson |
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