Dutch Typography in the Sixteenth Century

Paul Valkema Blouw

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of the Written Word | nr. 18
• When compiling the short-title catalogue of books printed in the sixteenth-century northern Netherlands from 1541 to 1600, Paul Valkema Blouw was conf... Lees meer

Images, Texts, and Marginalia in a Vows of the Peacock Manuscript (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library MS G24)

Domenic Leo

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of the Written Word | nr. 28
• The "Vows of the Peacock" - written in 1312 and dedicated to Thibaut de Bar, bishop of Liège - recounts how Alexander the Great comes to the aid of a ... Lees meer

Pamphlets and Politics in the Dutch Republic

Deen Femke

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of the Written Word | nr. 12
• Despite surging interest in early modern pamphlets, political historians of the Dutch Republic, arguably the frontrunner in pamphleteering, have yet t... Lees meer

News in Early Modern Europe

Davies Simon

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of the Written Word | nr. 39
• News in Early Modern Europe - Currents and Connections , edited by Simon Davies and Puck Fletcher, presents significant new research on the production... Lees meer

The Acquisition of Books by Chetham's Library, 1655-1700

Matthew Yeo

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of the Written Word | nr. 16
• Chetham's Library, Manchester, was founded in 1655 by the bequest of the Manchester merchant, Humphrey Chetham (1580-1653). Drawing on recent debates ... Lees meer

International Publishing in the Netherlands, 1933-1945

Hendrik Edelman

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of the Written Word | nr. 13
• International publishing in the Netherlands had a glorious tradition in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A remarkable revival took place afte... Lees meer

Jesuit Books in the Dutch Republic and Its Generality Lands 1567-1773

Paul Begheyn Sj

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of the Written Word | nr. 35
• This book gives a detailed description of all books, published in the Dutch Republic and its Generality Lands between 1567 and 1773 - the year in whic... Lees meer

Producing Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' in the Early Modern Low Countries

John Tholen

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of the Written Word | nr. 95
• Printers in the early modern Low Countries produced no fewer than 152 editions of Ovid's Metamorphoses . John Tholen investigates what these editions ... Lees meer

Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World

Kirwan Richard

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of the Written Word | nr. 40
• Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World , edited by Richard Kirwan and Sophie Mullins, investigates an underexplored yet important facet of ... Lees meer

Texts in Transit

Lotte Hellinga

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of the Written Word | nr. 38
• After Gutenberg's Bible had appeared in print in 1455, other early printers found different ways to solve problems set by the new technique. Survival ... Lees meer

Form and Function in the Late Medieval Bible

Poleg Eyal

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of the Written Word | nr. 27
• Thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Latin Bibles survive in hundreds of manuscripts, one of the most popular books of the Middle Ages. Their innovative... Lees meer

Publishing Policies and Family Strategies

Arianne Baggerman

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of the Written Word | nr. 32
• This study analyses the development of the Dutch publishers and booksellers firm Blussé in connection with the history of the Blussé family between 17... Lees meer

The Trans-Saharan Book Trade

Graziano Kratli

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of the Written Word | nr. 8
• As the manuscript treasures in the libraries of Timbuktu and throughout the northwestern quarter of Africa become known, many questions are raised. Ho... Lees meer

The Printed Book in Brittany, 1484-1600

Malcolm Walsby

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of the Written Word | nr. 14
• Printing in provincial France has not attracted the same interest as the main centres of print. Using archival as well as printed sources, this book p... Lees meer

Johann Froben, Printer of Basel

Valentina Sebastiani

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of the Written Word | nr. 65
• In Johann Froben, Printer of Basel , Valentina Sebastiani offers a comprehensive account of the life and printing production of Froben, a major repres... Lees meer

Books in the Catholic World During the Early Modern Period

Alvarez Natalia

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of the Written Word | nr. 33
• The Reformation is often alluded to as Gutenberg's child. Could it then be said that the Counter-Reformation was his step-child? The close relationshi... Lees meer

Not Dead Things

Harms Roeland

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of the Written Word | nr. 30
• Cheap print moved across Europe in surprising ways, crossing unusual distances by unusual routes and by unusual means. Pedlars, news, and cheap print ... Lees meer

From Ghent to AIX

Paul Arblaster

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of the Written Word | nr. 36
• Sixteenth-century Brussels and Antwerp in combination formed the northern linchpin of an international communication network that covered Western and ... Lees meer

Eighteenth-Century Periodicals as Agents of Change

Krefting Ellen

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of the Written Word | nr. 42
• Periodicals were an essential medium during eighteenth-century Enlightenment. The era's growing number of newspapers and journals made possible a fast... Lees meer

The Book Triumphant

Walsby Malcolm

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of the Written Word | nr. 15
• Books printed in the fifteenth century have been the subject of much in-depth research. In contrast, the beginning of the sixteenth century has not at... Lees meer

The Industry of Evangelism

Drew B Thomas

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of the Written Word | nr. 96
• Of the leading print centres in early modern Europe, Wittenberg was the only one that was not a major centre of trade, politics, or culture. This mono... Lees meer

Print Culture and Peripheries in Early Modern Europe

Costas Benito Rial

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of the Written Word | nr. 24
• Despite the fact that, if only by number, small and peripheral cities played an important role in fifteenth and sixteenth-century European print cultu... Lees meer

Broadsheets

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of the Written Word | nr. 60
• This volume offers an expansive survey of the role of single-sheet publishing in the European print industry during the first two centuries after the ... Lees meer

Pedlars and the Popular Press

Jeroen Salman

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of the Written Word | nr. 29
• Itinerant salesmen, also called pedlars, street hawkers, hucksters and ballad singers are considered to be the most important distributors of popular ... Lees meer