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Incunabula in Transit
People and Trade
Series: - Library of the Written Word, Volume: 62
- Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Volume: 62
Author:
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 Caxtonâs Flanders enterprise demonstrates. Eighteenth-century collectors dislodged books from institutions where they had rested since the sales drives of early printers. Erudite and entertaining, Hellingaâs evidence-based approach, linked to historical context, deepens understanding of the trade in early printed books.
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).
âAn intellectual tour de force in the oeuvre of one of our most renowned book historians and incunabulists.â
Carol M. Meale, in: The Book Collector, Vol. 67. No. 3 (Autumn 2018), pp. 600â603.
âFor the amount and quality of information provided, this book will be read by anyone who works with early printing. Yet all early modern historians will find it of interest, especially those involved with European cultural history. Young scholars might also use it as a handbook for the fieldâs methodology, reflected in the authorâs works as well as those of the many scholars mentioned in this book.â
Maria Alessandra Panzanelli Fratoni, University of Turin. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Spring 2020), pp. 274â276.
âLotte Hellinga hoort tot de âtop in het veldâ. In deze bundel geeft Lotte Hellinga [â¦] een helder beeld van de werkwijze van de incunabulistiek, de hogeschool onder de disciplines die de boekwetenschap uitmaken.â (Lotte Hellinga is among the âtop in the fieldâ. In this volume, Lotte Hellinga provides [...] a clear picture of the working method of incunabulistics, the honors college among the disciplines that make up book history.)
Frans A. Janssen, in: De Boekenwereld, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2018), pp. 88â89.
Carol M. Meale, in: The Book Collector, Vol. 67. No. 3 (Autumn 2018), pp. 600â603.
âFor the amount and quality of information provided, this book will be read by anyone who works with early printing. Yet all early modern historians will find it of interest, especially those involved with European cultural history. Young scholars might also use it as a handbook for the fieldâs methodology, reflected in the authorâs works as well as those of the many scholars mentioned in this book.â
Maria Alessandra Panzanelli Fratoni, University of Turin. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Spring 2020), pp. 274â276.
âLotte Hellinga hoort tot de âtop in het veldâ. In deze bundel geeft Lotte Hellinga [â¦] een helder beeld van de werkwijze van de incunabulistiek, de hogeschool onder de disciplines die de boekwetenschap uitmaken.â (Lotte Hellinga is among the âtop in the fieldâ. In this volume, Lotte Hellinga provides [...] a clear picture of the working method of incunabulistics, the honors college among the disciplines that make up book history.)
Frans A. Janssen, in: De Boekenwereld, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2018), pp. 88â89.
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 1460â1470: 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 Wordeâs Native Land
10 Aesopus Moralisatus, Antwerp, 1488 in England
11 An Early Eighteenth-century Sale of Mainz Incunabula by the Frankfurt Dominicans
âin co-authorship with Margaret Nickson
12 A Caxton Tract-volume from Thomas Rawlinsonâs Library
âin co-authorship with Margaret Nickson
13 Buying Incunabula in Venice and Milan: The Bibliotheca Smithiana
Index
Colour Illustrations
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 1460â1470: 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 Wordeâs Native Land
10 Aesopus Moralisatus, Antwerp, 1488 in England
11 An Early Eighteenth-century Sale of Mainz Incunabula by the Frankfurt Dominicans
âin co-authorship with Margaret Nickson
12 A Caxton Tract-volume from Thomas Rawlinsonâs Library
âin co-authorship with Margaret Nickson
13 Buying Incunabula in Venice and Milan: The Bibliotheca Smithiana
Index
Colour Illustrations
All interested in the history of the book and printing, in textual transmission in the early modern period, and in the history of typography. Also art historians focusing on book illumination.