Frontispiece to the codex Amiatinus.
"The Care of Books"
John Willis Clark
Partly owing to the political troubles that followed its foundation, and partly perhaps to delay on the part of the printers, the only important works that came from this press were Dr. Patrick Young's translation of the book of Job, from the codex Alexandrinus, a folio printed in 1637, and an edition in Greek of the Epistles of St. Paul, with a commentary by the Bishop of Peterborough, also a folio, which came from the same press in 1636. The Greek letter used in this office cannot be compared for beauty or delicacy of outline with that which Norton had used in the Chrysostom of 1610. On the 11th July 1637 was published another Star Chamber Decree concerning printers.
"A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898"
Henry R. Plomer
The parent of our present book form, the Roman codex, split from an actual block of wood, had a surface hardly as large as the cover of a Little Classic.
"The Booklover and His Books"
Harry Lyman Koopman