Books of the hours, introduced by one Antoine Vérard, whose tastes ran to illustrated and heavily ornamented pages bound in deluxe editions, were important influences in these directions.
The Teleki-Bolyai Library, founded at the end of the 18th century by Count Samuel Teleki, chancellor of Transylvania, contains a large collection of first editions and important manuscripts documenting Transylvanian history, as well as mathematical and scientific works.
First editions of important books can be very valuable.
General editor James West, Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, believes the edition is important "because we want to read what Fitzgerald wrote, not what the editors at the Post thought he should have written".
Efforts to conserve lemurs have faced steep challenges, Dunkel wrote, due to political and economic instability in Madagascar, and these challenges make the new edition especially important.
In the 7th edition, no important overlapping occurs among stages I through IV.
But Harry Ferguson, professor of social work at Nottingham University, says crucial changes have been made in later editions that codify important aspects of social work practice.
He was also responsible for important editions of several of Conrad's works, and of works by Trollope and Shakespeare, the latter marked by a consistent awareness of performing conditions.
Clichtove, who wrote many commentaries on Lefèvre's editions, became an important figure in the Paris faculty of theology.
He also contributed to Renaissance philosophy beyond the university with important editions of the corpus attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, various Church Fathers, the Catalan mystic Ramon Lull, and the opera omnia of Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa.
