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Incunabula in Transit : people and trade / by Lotte Hellinga.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) Z240 .H455 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hellinga, Lotte, author.
- Series:
- Library of the written word ; 62.
- Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 47.
- Library of the Written Word ; volume 62. The Handpress World ; volume 47
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Book industries and trade--Europe--History--15th century.
- Book industries and trade.
- Book industries and trade--Europe--History--18th century.
- Books--History--1450-1600.
- Books.
- History.
- Incunabula.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 519 pages : illustrations ; c 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Brill, 2017.
- Summary:
- Almost half a million books printed in the fifteenth century survive in collections worldwide. In 'Incunabula in Transit' Lotte Hellinga explores how and where they were first disseminated. Propelled by the novel need to market hundreds of books, early printers formed networks with colleagues, engaged agents and traded Latin books over long distances. They adapted presentation to suit the taste of distinct readerships, local and remote. Publishing in vernacular languages required typographical innovations, as the chapter on William Caxton's Flanders enterprise demonstrates. Eighteenth-century collectors dislodged books from institutions where they had rested since the sales drives of early printers. Erudite and entertaining, Hellinga?s evidence-based approach, linked to historical context, deepens understanding of the trade in early printed books.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789004340350
- 9004340351
- OCLC:
- 1004262781
- Publisher Number:
- 99976143049
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