History of Desktop Publishing Selected as Honorable Mention

History of Desktop Publishing by Frank Romano (with Miranda Mitrano) has been awarded Honorable Mention by the jury of the 18th International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) Breslauer Prize for Bibliography.

The ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography is the world’s leading prize honoring outstanding work in the field of bibliography and book history. The award is sponsored by the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. The 18th edition of the prize was awarded in September, 2022 at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, England.

The 2022 winners are:

• 1st Prize: Jack Baldwin, A Catalogue of Fifteenth-Century Printed Books in Glasgow Libraries and Museums, 2 volumes (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2020).
• 2nd Prize: Ernst Fischer; Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels – Historische Kommission. (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2020–21).
• 3rd Prize: Renaud Adam, Vivre et imprimer dans les Pays-Bas Méridionaux (Des Origines à la réforme), 2 vols (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018).
• Honorable Mention: Frank Romano (with Miranda Mitrano), History of Desktop Publishing (New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019).

For the full ILAB press release, see: https://ilab.org/article/celebrating-outstanding-works-of-bibliography-and-book-history-impressions-of-the-ilab-breslauer-prize-ceremony-2022

The book is available through the Museum of Printing gift shop in soft or hard cover as well as through the publisher, Oak Knoll Books: https://www.oakknoll.com/pages/books/133734/frank-romano-with-miranda-mitrano/history-of-desktop-publishing

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