Broadsheets : single-sheet publishing in the first age of print / edited by Andrew Pettegree.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pettegree, Andrew., Editor.

Contributor:

Pettegree, Andrew, editor.

Series:

Library of the written word ; Volume 60.

Library of the written word. Handpress world ; Volume 45.

Library of the Written Word, 1874-4834 ; Volume 60

The Handpress World ; Volume 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Printing industry--Europe--History--16th century.

Printing industry.

Printing industry--Europe--History--17th century.

Europe--Intellectual life--16th century.

Europe.

Europe--Intellectual life--17th century.

Europe--Economic conditions--16th century.

Europe--Economic conditions--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (564 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2017

Leiden, [Netherlands] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2017.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 invention of printing. Drawing on new materials made available during the compilation of the Universal Short Title Catalogue, the twenty contributors explore the extraordinary range of broadsheet publishing and its contribution to government, pedagogy, religious devotion and entertainment culture. Long disregarded as ephemera or cheap print, broadsheets emerge both as a crucial communication medium and an essential underpinning of the economics of the publishing industry.

Contents:

Introduction

Broadsheets: Single-Sheet Publishing in the First Age of Print. Typology and Typography / Andrew Pettegree

Early Modern Broadsheets between Archives and Libraries: Toward a Possible Integration / Flavia Bruni

Surveys

A Survey of Printed Spanish Broadsheets, 1472–1700 / Alexander S. Wilkinson , Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo and Alba de la Cruz

Fifty Thousand Veronicas. Print Runs of Broadsheets in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries / Falk Eisermann

Reconstructing Broadsheet Production in Reformation Wittenberg / Drew Thomas

Official Print

In the Name of God: Governance, Public Order and Theocracy in the Broadsheets of the Stamperia Camerale of Rome / Flavia Bruni

Bread and Fairs: Broadsheet Printing for the Municipality of Lyon, 1497–1570 / Jamie Cumby

Collections of Italian Broadsheets in French Libraries / Shanti Graheli

Commerce and Good Governance: The Broadsheet Ordinances in the Van der Meulen Archive / Nina Lamal

“Everyone has hereby been warned.” The Structure and Typography of Broadsheet Ordinances and the Communication of Governance in the Early Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic / Arthur der Weduwen

Politics

Broadsheets Testing Moderation in the Nascent Dutch Revolt / Johan Verberckmoes and Violet Soen

The King is Dead. German Broadsheets Printed on the Death of Gustavus Adolphus and Charles i / Jan Hillgaertner

Johann Georg Schleder (1597–1685), Journalist, Chronicler, and Broadsheet Author / John Roger Paas

Broadsheets in the Academic World

Function in Form: Single-Sheet Items and the Utility of Cheap Print in the Early Modern German University / Richard Kirwan

Cheap Print and the Academic Market: The Printing of Dissertations in Sixteenth-Century Louvain / Malcolm Walsby

Advertising Medical Studies in Sixteenth-Century Basel: Function and Use of Academic Disputations / Saskia Limbach

Broadsheets in the Marketplace

German Music Broadsheets, 1500 to 1550: Production, Persuasion and Performance / Amelie Roper

The Lamentable Tale of Lost Ballads in England, 1557–1640 / Alexandra Hill

Witchcraft Illustrated: The Crime of Witchcraft in Early Modern German News Broadsheets / Abaigéal Warfield

Selling Books by Broadsheet: The Sales Catalogue of Marie du Flo, veuve de Charles Savreux, marchand-libraire / Graeme Kemp

Colour Plates.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY-NC

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789004340312

9004340319

OCLC:

990141329

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004340312 DOI

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access