Figures
2.1 Insertion of a decorative device at the end of an issue Dd. Relation dessen/ Waß sich in Böhemen/ […] begeben. State and University Library Bremen 32
2.2 Title pages of Johann Adolph von Söhne’s Wolfenbütteler Aviso and Gössel’s Zeitung. State and University Library Bremen 53
2.3 Places of publication of German newspapers, 1605–1650 57
2.4 First issue of the Türkischer Estats und Krieges-Bericht. State and University Library Bremen 65
3.1 Amount of reports sent from British places of correspondence in the Netherlandish press (1618–1700) and German press (1609–1650) 88
3.2 English news as part of a report from Amsterdam 90
3.3 Title-page of Continuatio XIII. State and University Library Bremen 108
3.4 Title-Page of Andreas Hünefeld’s newspaper with short digests of the content. Bremen University Library 110
3.5 Distribution of type size in the N. XII. Zeitung Auß Wolfenbüttel. Saxon State and University Library Dresden 113–115
3.6 Error in the order of reports. Num: 43. Extraordinari Sambstägliche Post Zeitungen Vom 16. Martii. Jm Jahr 1631. State and University Library Bremen 116
3.7 Corrections of Gabelkover in the proofsheets for IV. Zeittungen. State and University Library Bremen 119
4.1 Title-page of the Außführlicher Bericht. State and University Library Bremen 139
4.2 Particular-Relation. Auß Rom. Was zwischen dem Papst unnd Cardinälen Spannischer Faction, wegen der Königl. Mayestät zu Schweden, etc. Todt, vorgangen 153
4.3 Schwedischer Hercules, Das ist: Trost und Frewde der Frommen/ und getroste zuversicht der Göttlichen instehender Errettung 155
5.1 16: Title-page of the Gesprech/ Zwischen dem Englischen Bickelhering/ und Frantzöischen Schanpetasen 181
6.1 Immerwerende Newe Politische Postzeitung Auß Macrocosmia (anon.: s.l., 1641). Göttingen State and University Library 192
Tables
2.1 Newspaper issues published in Germany, 1609–1650 36
2.2 Longevity and disruption in the newspaper business, 1630–1639 41
2.3 Number of newly founded newspapers, 1605–1650 42
2.4 The print output of Germany’s most prolific print centres, 1600–1650 47
2.5 Newspaper and book production by city, 1609–1650 48
2.6 New newspaper titles per year, 1630–1639 51
2.7 New newspaper titles per decade, 1609–1650 51
2.8 Towns with German newspapers, 1605–1650 58
3.1 The twenty most common places of correspondence in German newspapers, 1605–1650 74
3.2 The twenty most common places of correspondence in Northern and Southern Netherlandish newspapers, 1618–1700 75
3.3 River reports in German newspapers 94
4.1 Development of the amount of reports relating to Swedish matters, 1628–1632 125
5.1 Reports from London and Edinburgh in the German press, 1605–1700 167