Incunabula in Transit

People and Trade
xiv, 510 pp. With a full colour section.
ISBN: 978-90-04-34035-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 62, 530 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1043 g

Reihe: Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hellinga, Lotte

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Buchgeschichte, Bibliotheksgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Book Auctions in the Fifteenth Century

2 Advertising and Selling Books in the Fifteenth Century

3 Nicolas Jenson, Peter Schoeffer and the Development of Printing Types

4 Peter Schoeffer: Publisher and Bookseller

5 The Mainz Catholicon 1460–1470: An Experiment in Book Production and the Book Trade

6 Fragments Found in Bindings: The Complexity of Evidence for the Earliest Dutch Typography

7 Prelates in Print

8 William Caxton, Colard Mansion and the Printer in Type 1

9 Wynkyn de Worde’s Native Land

10 Aesopus Moralisatus, Antwerp, 1488 in England

11 An Early Eighteenth-century Sale of Mainz Incunabula by the Frankfurt Dominicans
in co-authorship with Margaret Nickson

12 A Caxton Tract-volume from Thomas Rawlinson’s Library
in co-authorship with Margaret Nickson

13 Buying Incunabula in Venice and Milan: The Bibliotheca Smithiana

Index

Colour Illustrations

Über Autor(innen)

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).