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1 online resource (639 p.) |
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Library of the Written Word Ser |
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Library of the Written Word Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Andrew Pettegree, a Historian of the Reformation and the Book -- 2 Andrew Pettegree and Brill: A Publishing History -- Part 1 The Arts of Printing and Publishing -- 3 'Drawing on a Pigmy's Frock over the Shoulders of a Giant'. Visualising Dedicatory Networks in French Vernacular Books (1501-1600) -- 4 A Crowded Field in Luther's Wittenberg: Collaboration and Sub-Contracting in the Reformation Book Trade -- 5 'Doing Men's Work'. Katharina Rebart, Her Life and Her Activities in Context |
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6 Vanished Components. Evidence for the Partial Survival of Tabula Cebetis Editions -- 7 Maps and the Market: The Amsterdam Book Trade and the Rise of the Pocket Atlas -- 8 Jan van Meerbeeck and the Book Business in Brussels in the First Third of the Seventeenth Century -- Part 2 International Connections and Circulation in the Book World -- 9 The Pilgrim, the City and the Book: The Role of the Mobility of Pilgrims in Book Circulation in Renaissance Venice -- 10 Diplomacy, Material Culture and the Book World in the Account of the French Special Envoys to Hamburg, 1638 |
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11 Admiration, Anger and Envy: Descriptions of the Dutch Golden Age in English Print -- 12 Exile, Expansion and Commerce: Dutch Printing outside the Low Countries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 13 Going Once, Going Twice, Sold! Used Books at Auctions in Leiden, The Hague and London, 1689-90 -- Part 3 Education and the Book -- 14 Abacus Manuals, Schools and Urban Readers in Early Modern Venice and Milan -- 15 Advertising Educational Opportunities: L'Ordre et manière d'enseigner, Geneva, 1538 |
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16 Influences, Assimilation, Adaptations: Observations on Greek Grammars Printed in France in the Sixteenth Century -- 17 From Schoolbook to Children's Literature. The Evolution of a Dutch Book Market for Youngsters in the Long Eighteenth Century -- Part 4 Libraries and Book Collecting -- 18 Politics, Community and Identity in the Formation of the Dutch Church Library in London, 1550-c.1650 -- 19 'Boecken ende Anders.' The Book Collection of the Seventeenth-Century Leiden Student Leonard van Sorgen (c.1620-1644) |
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20 The Bibliotheca Publica of Leiden University, 1585-1741: A Portrait of the Early Modern Public Research Library -- 21 Locating Books of Hours in Eighteenth-Century Private Libraries: Auction Catalogues as Generators of Enlightenment Value(s) -- Part 5 Developments in the Periodical Press -- 22 The First Advertisements in Italian Newspapers (1683-1700) -- 23 Expansion and Restraint in the Dutch Newspaper Market, 1700-1795 -- 24 Reprints of the Gazette van Antwerpen in the Dutch Republic, 1706-1806 -- Part 6 Research Methodologies and Media Transformations |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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25 Bonaventura's Dream: The USTC, Typographical Analysis and the Future of Book Historical Research |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Walsby, Malcolm
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| ISBN |
9789004518100 |
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900451810X |
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