The discovery of the printing press and the printing of the first books is considered one of the most important events in the history of civilization. Printing has greatly influenced the development of society, especially since the emergence of the press has made it easier to spread the written word, and thus ideas, and greater availability of books to a wider segment of the population. Aim of this paper is to briefly present the history of hand printing in Croatia, on the example of selected printers in which incunabula and old books were printed, ie books printed by hand, and to show selected the most famous Croatian incunabula and old books. The selection of the presented printers and old books was made on the basis of an insight into the relevant literature in the field of Croatian incunabulistics and the history of printing. In addition, aim is to analyze the representation of these topics on the history of print and books in Croatian scientific journals. The purpose of this paper is based on the insight into the representation of papers on the history of books and press in Croatian scientific journals on the Hrčak portal to assess whether it is a topic that is sufficiently represented in Croatian scientific production, given the importance of this topic for cultural, scientific, social and the economic history of society. The research is conducted on the basis of a content analysis of papers presented in the database of scientific journals Hrčak. The obtained results indicate that this is a topic that is represented in a number of Croatian scientific journals, and the topics covered in the papers are diverse and cover all periods of press history relevant to Croatian history.