Cover illustration: Virgo Dordracena (Virgin of Dordrecht), printer’s device of Hendrik van Esch, woodcut from the title page of Johan van Beverwijck, Lof der medicine, ofte Genees-konste [Dordrecht: Hendrik van Esch, 1641]. Image courtesy of the Ghent University Library, BIB.BL.006753/-1.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Watson, Elise (Historian), editor. | Farrell-Jobst, Jessica, editor.
Title: Gender and the book trades / edited by Elise Watson, Jessica Farrell-Jobst.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025. | Series: Library of the written word, 1874–4834 ; volume 128 | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2024040255 (print) | LCCN 2024040256 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004701649 (hardback ; acid-free paper) | ISBN 9789004701656 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Book industries and trade—History. | Book industries and trade—Case studies. | Women in the book industries and trade—History. | Women in the book industries and trade—Case studies. | LCGFT: Case studies. | Essays.
Classification: LCC Z280 .G46 2025 (print) | LCC Z280 (ebook) | DDC 381/.45002081—dc23/eng/20240918
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024040255
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024040256
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ISSN 1874-4834
ISBN 978-90-04-70164-9 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-70165-6 (e-book)
DOI 10.1163/9789004701656
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