Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World

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The Handpress World explores the impact of the invention of printing by moveable type from the first experiments of the incunabula age through to the end of the eighteenth century. In this crucial period of book history the new technology both transformed established markets for scholarly and religious literature and found a new public through the rise of the pamphlet and later the newspaper. The series will investigate every aspect of this cultural transformation, from the promotion in print of the great intellectual movements of the day through to the birth of the public library.

Authors are cordially invited to submit book proposals and/or full manuscripts to the Publisher at Brill, Arjan van Dijk.

Readers of Erasmus
Humanism and the Reformation in Early Tudor England
Band 153
Von: Tim Wade
978-90-04-76294-7
Advertising the Early Printed Book
A Census of Publishers’ and Booksellers’ Advertisements and Catalogues till 1600
Band 154
Herausgeber: J. Christopher Warner
978-90-04-76034-9
Dangerous Books
Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy
Band 145
978-90-04-75612-0
God's Arsenal
The Libraries of the Society of Jesus in the Early Modern Age (1540–1773)
Band 148
978-90-04-74272-7
The Dundee Bibliotheck, 1599–1724
A Study, with an Edition of the 1724 Shelf-list
Band 146
978-90-04-75585-7
The Great Book of the World
The Formation and Use of the Library of Robert Ashley (1565–1641)
Band 144
978-90-04-74737-1
The Common Voice
Essays on Communication and Culture in Early Modern Britain
Band 136
Von: Adam Fox
978-90-04-72433-4
Watching the Virtues
Playbills, Drama and the Teaching of Civic Virtue in the Jesuit Theatre of Poland–Lithuania
Band 142
978-90-04-69727-0
The Elizabethan Catholic Underground
Clandestine Printing and Scribal Subversion in the English Counter-Reformation
Band 140
Herausgeber: Earle Havens und Mark Rankin
978-90-04-42641-2
Early Modern Publishers
Identities and Strategies in the Book Trade
Band 138
978-90-04-72718-2
Pieter de Graeff (1638–1707) and his treffelyke bibliotheek
Exploring and Reconstructing an Early Modern Private Library as a Book Collection and as a Physical Space
Band 134
978-90-04-71174-7
'All my books in foreign tongues’
The Oriental Bequest of Joseph Scaliger and the University Library of Leiden
Band 132
978-90-04-70152-6
Production and Provenance
Copy-Specific Features of Incunabula
Band 123
978-90-04-68985-5
Involving Readers
Practices of Reading, Use, and Interaction in Early Modern Dutch Bibles (1522–1546)
Band 129
978-90-04-69652-5
Gender and the Book Trades
Band 128
978-90-04-70165-6
Tracts of Action
Material, Visual, and Practical Dimensions of Early Modern How-to Books
Band 127
978-90-04-68338-9
Printing Anglo-Saxon from Parker to Hickes and Wanley
With a Catalogue of Early Printed Books Containing Anglo-Saxon 1566–1705
Band 105
978-90-04-51639-7
Exciting News!
Event, Narration and Impact from Past to Present
Band 122
978-90-04-68983-1
Printers’ Devices in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Iconographic Sources and Ideological Content
Band 117
978-90-04-67960-3
Early Modern Catholicism and the Printed Book
Agents – Networks – Responses
Band 119
978-90-04-53867-2
Reading Between the Lines
Parish Libraries and their Readers in Early Modern England, 1558–1709
Band 120
978-90-04-36371-7
Spotlights on Incunabula
Band 118
Herausgeber: Anette Hagan
978-90-04-68137-8
Private Libraries and their Documentation, 1665–1830
Studying and Interpreting Sources
Band 112
978-90-04-54296-9
The Baltic Battle of Books
Formation and Relocation of European Libraries in the Confessional Age (c. 1500–c. 1650) and Their Afterlife
Band 116
978-90-04-44121-7
Watermarks 1450–1850
A Concise History of Paper in Western Europe
Band 98
978-90-04-50684-8
Seventeenth-Century Libraries
Problems and Perspectives
Band 114
Herausgeber: Robyn Adams und Jacqueline Glomski
978-90-04-42981-9
Spoils of Knowledge
Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries
Band 111
978-90-04-53823-8
The Devotion of Collecting
Dutch Ministers and the Culture of Print in the Seventeenth Century
Band 110
978-90-04-53819-1
Thumb Bibles
The History of a Literary Genre
Band 108
978-90-04-52588-7
The Book World of Early Modern Europe
Essays in Honour of Andrew Pettegree, Volume 2
Band 107
978-90-04-51810-0
Reformation, Religious Culture and Print in Early Modern Europe
Essays in Honour of Andrew Pettegree, Volume 1
Band 106
978-90-04-51530-7
Printing Spinoza
A Descriptive Bibliography of the Works Published in the Seventeenth Century
Band 100
978-90-04-46799-6
A History and Catalogue of the Lindsay Library, 1570–1792
The Story of 'Some bonie litle bookes'
Band 103
978-90-04-50379-3
Series Editors
Andrew Pettegree, University of St Andrews
Arthur der Weduwen, University of St Andrews

Editorial Board
Trude Dijkstra, University of Amsterdam
Falk Eisermann, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Shanti Graheli, University of Glasgow
Katherine Halsey, Stirling University
Earle Havens, Johns Hopkins University
Ian Maclean, All Souls College, Oxford
Angela Nuovo, University of Milan
Malcolm Walsby, University of Lyon - École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques (enssib)
Alexander Wilkinson, University College Dublin
“Brill’s Library of the Written Word is a gold standard scholarly book history series.”
Ruth-Ellen St. Onge, McMaster University. In: SHARP News, November 17th, 2025.

“One of the most outstanding series in the field of European book history.”
Mart van Duijn, Leiden University Libraries. In: Quaerendo, Vol. 44, No. 3 (2014).

“One of the most influential early modern book history series currently available.”
Alexander S. Wilkinson, University College Dublin. In: SHARP News, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Autumn 2014), p. 10.