incunabulistn.
/ɪnkjuːˈnabjʊlɪst/ One who collects or is interested in incunabula.
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incunabulist1921
1921 S. Gaselee in Library Sept. 135 To all incunabulists it [sc. the letter H] is almost indissociably the abbreviation for Hain's Repertorium.
1923 S. Gaselee in Library Mar. 306 It will be duly recorded in what will some day be the magistral authority for all of us incunabulists.
1928 Library Sept. 162 The incunabulist has to stop at the threshold of the year 1501.
1949 F. Bowers Princ. Bibliogr. Descr. ix. 339 Incunabulists view the information in colophons with suspicion until it is checked by other evidence.
1970 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Aug. 906/2 It is well known from the work of the incunabulists that the typographical equipment of a fifteenth-century printer was identifiably unique.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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