Incunabula in Transit: People and Trade by Hellinga, Lotte

Incunabula in Transit: People and Trade (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004340350)

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Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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Incunabula in Transit: People and Trade by Hellinga, Lotte

Incunabula in Transit: People and Trade

$244.00
Incunabula in Transit: People and Trade by Hellinga, Lotte

Incunabula in Transit: People and Trade

$244.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Lotte Hellinga
ISBN-10: 9004340351
ISBN-13: 9789004340350
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 03/13/2018
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.30lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.40w x 1.40d
By Lotte Hellinga
By Lotte Hellinga
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Lotte Hellinga, Litt.D. (1974, University of Amsterdam) was, until 1995, Deputy Keeper at the British Library, where she initiated the ISTC database and completed the BMC incunabula catalogue. She published extensively on book history, early typography, the book trade and textual transmission in incunabula. Her most recent book is Texts in Transit (Brill, 2014).

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