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Incunabula in transit : people and trade /

"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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hellinga, Lotte (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Colección:Library of the written word ; 62.
Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 47.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book auctions in the fifteenth century
  • Advertising and selling books in the fifteenth century
  • Nicolas Jenson, Peter Schoeffer and the development of printing types
  • Peter Schoeffer: publisher and bookseller
  • The Mainz Catholicon 1460-1470: an experiment in book production and the book trade
  • Fragments found in bindings: the complexity of evidence for the earliest Dutch typography
  • Prelates in print
  • William Caxton, Colard Mansion and the printer in type 1
  • Wynkyn de Worde's native land
  • Aesopus moralisatus, Antwerp, 1488 in England
  • An early eighteenth-century sale of Mainz incunabula by the Frankfurt Dominicans
  • A Caxton tract-volume from Thomas Rawlinson's library
  • Buying incunabula in Venice and Milan: the Bibliotheca Smithiana.