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The printed book in Brittany, 1484-1600 /
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 provides a groundbreaking new understanding of the development of printing in the provinces. Though printing in Brittany started during the incunabula...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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| Colección: | Library of the written word ;
14. Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 8. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 provides a groundbreaking new understanding of the development of printing in the provinces. Though printing in Brittany started during the incunabula period, the presses disappeared in the first decade of the sixteenth century. This work analyses the role of booksellers during these critical years and examines the business models that enabled the presses to return to the duchy. It also looks at issues such as ownership of books, Protestantism and. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (391 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004211940 9004211942 1283161648 9781283161640 |
| ISSN: | 1874-4834 ; |