The Book World of Early Modern Europe

Arthur der Weduwen is a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the University of St Andrews and co-deputy director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue. He specialises in the history of communication, printing and the book trade, early modern politics, and the history of the Netherlands, and is the author and editor of seven books in those fields. Malcolm Walsby is professor of book history at Enssib in Lyon and director of the Gabriel Naudé research centre. A specialist of the archaeology of the book and the economics of the book trade, he is the author of a number of monographs, bibliographies and articles on early modern European history.

Preface

List of Figures

List of Tables

Note on Contributors



1. Malcolm Walsby – Andrew Pettegree, a Historian of the Reformation and the Book

2. Arjan van Dijk – Andrew Pettegree and Brill: A Publishing History



Part 1. The Arts of Printing and Publishing

3. Graeme J. Kemp – ‘Drawing on a Pigmy’s Frock over the Shoulders of a Giant’. Visualising Dedicatory Networks in French Vernacular Books (1501–1600)

4. Drew B. Thomas – A Crowded Field in Luther’s Wittenberg: Collaboration and Sub-Contracting in the Reformation Book Trade

5. Saskia Limbach – ‘Doing men’s work’. Katharina Rebart, her Life and her Activities in Context

6. Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba – Vanished Components. Evidence for the Partial Survival of Tabula Cebetis Editions

7. Michiel van Groesen – Maps and the Market: The Amsterdam Book Trade and the Rise of the Pocket Atlas

8. Renaud Adam – 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. Sandra Toffolo – The Pilgrim, the City and the Book: the Role of the Mobility of Pilgrims in Book Circulation in Renaissance Venice

10. Shanti Graheli – Diplomacy, Material Culture and the Book World in the Account of the French Special Envoys to Hamburg, 1638

11. Jacob Baxter – Admiration, Anger and Envy: Descriptions of the Dutch Golden Age in English Print

12. Arthur der Weduwen – Exile, Expansion and Commerce: Dutch Printing outside the Low Countries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

13. Hanna de Lange – Going Once, Going Twice, Sold! Used Books at Auctions in Leiden, The Hague and London, 1689–90



Part 3. Education and the Book

14. Angela Nuovo – Abacus Manuals, Schools and Urban Readers in Early Modern Venice and Milan

15. Karin Maag – Advertising Educational Opportunities: L'Ordre et manière d'enseigner, Geneva, 1538

16. Natasha Constantinidou – Influences, Assimilation, Adaptations: Observations on Greek Grammars Printed in France in the Sixteenth Century

17. Joke Spaans – 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. Michael S. Springer – Politics, Community and Identity in the Formation of the Dutch Church Library in London, 1550–c. 1650

19. Paul Hoftijzer – ‘Boecken ende Anders.’ The Book Collection of the Seventeenth-Century Leiden Student Leonard van Sorgen (c. 1620–1644)

20. Earle Havens – The Bibliotheca Publica of Leiden University, 1585-1741: A Portrait of the Early Modern Public Research Library

21. Alicia Montoya – 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. Nina Lamal – The First Advertisements in Italian Newspapers (1683–1700)

23. Joop W. Koopmans – Expansion and Restraint in the Dutch Newspaper Market, 1700–1795

24. Steven Van Impe – Reprints of the Gazette van Antwerpen in the Dutch Republic, 1706–1806



Part 6. Research Methodologies and Media Transformations

25. Paul Dijstelberge – Bonaventura’s Dream: The USTC, Typographical Analysis and the Future of Book Historical Research

26. Alexander S. Wilkinson – Ornamento Europe: Towards an Atlas of the Visual Geography of the Renaissance Book

27. John A. Sibbald – The Age of Aquarius and Magic Fallibility: Scottish Legal Resources in the ‘60s and ‘70s and the Advent of ‘Modern Technology’



Bibliography of Andrew Pettegree’s Publications

Index