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.
Authors are cordially invited to submit book proposals and/or full manuscripts to the Publisher at Brill, Arjan van Dijk.
A Census of Publishers’ and Booksellers’ Advertisements and Catalogues till 1600
Volume 154
Editor(s):
J. Christopher Warner
978-90-04-76034-9
The Libraries of the Society of Jesus in the Early Modern Age (1540–1773)
Volume 148
978-90-04-74272-7
Volume 141
978-90-04-68483-6
A Study, with an Edition of the 1724 Shelf-list
Volume 146
978-90-04-75585-7
The Formation and Use of the Library of Robert Ashley (1565–1641)
Volume 144
978-90-04-74737-1
Essays on Communication and Culture in Early Modern Britain
Volume 136
978-90-04-72433-4
Playbills, Drama and the Teaching of Civic Virtue in the Jesuit Theatre of Poland–Lithuania
Volume 142
978-90-04-69727-0
Clandestine Printing and Scribal Subversion in the English Counter-Reformation
Volume 140
Editor(s):
Earle Havens and Mark Rankin
978-90-04-42641-2
The Bellicose Days
Volume 139
978-90-04-69621-1
Exploring and Reconstructing an Early Modern Private Library as a Book Collection and as a Physical Space
Volume 134
978-90-04-71174-7
The Oriental Bequest of Joseph Scaliger and the University Library of Leiden
Volume 132
978-90-04-70152-6
Volume 133
978-90-04-42977-2
Practices of Reading, Use, and Interaction in Early Modern Dutch Bibles (1522–1546)
Volume 129
978-90-04-69652-5
An Annotated Catalogue
Volume 125
978-90-04-70150-2
An Annotated Catalogue
Volume 125
978-90-04-70149-6
Material, Visual, and Practical Dimensions of Early Modern How-to Books
Volume 127
978-90-04-68338-9
With a Catalogue of Early Printed Books Containing Anglo-Saxon 1566–1705
Volume 105
978-90-04-51639-7
Event, Narration and Impact from Past to Present
Volume 122
Editor(s):
Brendan Dooley and Alexander Samuel Wilkinson
978-90-04-68983-1
Iconographic Sources and Ideological Content
Volume 117
978-90-04-67960-3
Agents – Networks – Responses
Volume 119
Editor(s):
Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba and Magdalena Komorowska
978-90-04-53867-2
Parish Libraries and their Readers in Early Modern England, 1558–1709
Volume 120
978-90-04-36371-7
Studying and Interpreting Sources
Volume 112
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Formation and Relocation of European Libraries in the Confessional Age (c. 1500–c. 1650) and Their Afterlife
Volume 116
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Problems and Perspectives
Volume 114
Editor(s):
Robyn Adams and Jacqueline Glomski
978-90-04-42981-9
Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries
Volume 111
978-90-04-53823-8
Dutch Ministers and the Culture of Print in the Seventeenth Century
Volume 110
978-90-04-53819-1
Essays in Honour of Andrew Pettegree, Volume 2
Volume 107
Editor(s):
Arthur der Weduwen and Malcolm Walsby
978-90-04-51810-0
Essays in Honour of Andrew Pettegree, Volume 1
Volume 106
Editor(s):
Arthur der Weduwen and Malcolm Walsby
978-90-04-51530-7
A Descriptive Bibliography of the Works Published in the Seventeenth Century
Volume 100
978-90-04-46799-6
The Story of 'Some bonie litle bookes'
Volume 103
978-90-04-50379-3
The Chinese Imprint
Volume 101
978-90-04-47329-4
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
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
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“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.”
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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.