Author: Bodleian Library
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780199519057
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
A Catalogue of Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century Now in the Bodleian Library
Author: Bodleian Library
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780199519057
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780199519057
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
A catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library
Author: Alan Edward Coates
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780199519064
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 2165
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780199519064
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 2165
Book Description
Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century Now in the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Block books
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Block books
Languages : en
Pages :
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Incunabula in Transit
Author: Lotte Hellinga
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900434036X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
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 Caxton’s Flanders enterprise demonstrates. Eighteenth-century collectors dislodged books from institutions where they had rested since the sales drives of early printers. Erudite and entertaining, Hellinga’s evidence-based approach, linked to historical context, deepens understanding of the trade in early printed books.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900434036X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
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 Caxton’s Flanders enterprise demonstrates. Eighteenth-century collectors dislodged books from institutions where they had rested since the sales drives of early printers. Erudite and entertaining, Hellinga’s evidence-based approach, linked to historical context, deepens understanding of the trade in early printed books.
Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century Now in the British Museum: Xylographica and books printed with types at Mainz, Strassburg, Bamberg and Cologne
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Block books
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Block books
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Typographic Firsts
Author: John Boardley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781851244737
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the practical challenges of polychromatic printing or printing music staves and notes to the techniques for illustrating books with woodcuts, producing books for children and the design of the first fonts, these stories chart the invention of the printed book, the world's first means of mass communication.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781851244737
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the practical challenges of polychromatic printing or printing music staves and notes to the techniques for illustrating books with woodcuts, producing books for children and the design of the first fonts, these stories chart the invention of the printed book, the world's first means of mass communication.
Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books
Author: Margaret Connolly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108426778
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Explores the reception of fifteenth-century English manuscripts and two generations of a Tudor family who owned and read them.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108426778
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Explores the reception of fifteenth-century English manuscripts and two generations of a Tudor family who owned and read them.
Marketing English Books, 1476-1550
Author: Alexandra da Costa
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192586858
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue - in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science - but also that combines these subjects productively. It offers innovative studies on topics that may include, but are not limited to, manuscript and book history; languages and literatures of the global Middle Ages; race and the post-colonial; the digital humanities, media and performance; music; medicine; the history of affect and the emotions; the literature and practices of devotion; the theory and history of gender and sexuality, ecocriticism and the environment; theories of aesthetics; medievalism. Marketing English Books is about how the earliest printers moulded demand and created new markets. Until the advent of print, the sale of books had been primarily a bespoke trade, but printers faced a new sales challenge: how to sell hundreds of identical books to individuals, who had many other demands on their purses. This book contends that this forced printers to think carefully about marketing and potential demand, for even if they sold through a middleman--as most did--that wholesaler, bookseller, or chapman needed to be convinced the books would attract customers. Marketing English Books sets out, therefore, to show how markets for a wide range of texts were cultivated by English printers between 1476 and 1550 within a wider, European context: devotional tracts; forbidden evangelical books; romances, gests, and bawdy tales; news; pilgrimage guides, souvenirs and advertisements; and household advice. Through close analysis of paratexts--including title-pages, prefaces, tables of contents, envoys, colophons, and images--the book reveals the cultural impact of printers in this often overlooked period. It argues that while print and manuscript continued alongside each other, developments in the marketing of printed texts began to change what readers read and the place of reading in their lives on a larger scale and at a faster pace than had occurred before, shaping their expectations, tastes, and even their practices and beliefs.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192586858
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue - in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science - but also that combines these subjects productively. It offers innovative studies on topics that may include, but are not limited to, manuscript and book history; languages and literatures of the global Middle Ages; race and the post-colonial; the digital humanities, media and performance; music; medicine; the history of affect and the emotions; the literature and practices of devotion; the theory and history of gender and sexuality, ecocriticism and the environment; theories of aesthetics; medievalism. Marketing English Books is about how the earliest printers moulded demand and created new markets. Until the advent of print, the sale of books had been primarily a bespoke trade, but printers faced a new sales challenge: how to sell hundreds of identical books to individuals, who had many other demands on their purses. This book contends that this forced printers to think carefully about marketing and potential demand, for even if they sold through a middleman--as most did--that wholesaler, bookseller, or chapman needed to be convinced the books would attract customers. Marketing English Books sets out, therefore, to show how markets for a wide range of texts were cultivated by English printers between 1476 and 1550 within a wider, European context: devotional tracts; forbidden evangelical books; romances, gests, and bawdy tales; news; pilgrimage guides, souvenirs and advertisements; and household advice. Through close analysis of paratexts--including title-pages, prefaces, tables of contents, envoys, colophons, and images--the book reveals the cultural impact of printers in this often overlooked period. It argues that while print and manuscript continued alongside each other, developments in the marketing of printed texts began to change what readers read and the place of reading in their lives on a larger scale and at a faster pace than had occurred before, shaping their expectations, tastes, and even their practices and beliefs.
Leonardo’s Fables
Author: Giuditta Cirnigliaro
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004527192
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
An exploration of the compositional methods and sources of Leonardo’s fables to investigate their relationship with illustrations and scientific studies.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004527192
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
An exploration of the compositional methods and sources of Leonardo’s fables to investigate their relationship with illustrations and scientific studies.
Makers and Users of Medieval Books
Author: Carol M. Meale
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843843757
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Essays exploring different aspects of late medieval and early modern manuscript and book culture. Late medieval manuscripts and early modern print history form the focus of this volume. It includes new work on the compilation of some important medieval manuscript miscellanies and major studies of merchant patronage and of a newly revealed woman patron, alongside explorations of medieval texts and the post-medieval reception history of Langland, Chaucer and Nicholas Love. It thus pays a fitting tribute to the career of Professor A.S.G. Edwards, highlighting his scholarly interests and demonstrating the influence of his achievements. Carol M. Meale is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol; the late Derek Pearsall was Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and Honorary Research Professor at the University of York. Contributors: Nicolas Barker, J.A. Burrow, A.I. Doyle, Martha W. Driver, Susanna Fein, Jane Griffiths, Lotte Hellinga, Alfred Hiatt, Simon Horobin, Richard Linenthal, Carol M. Meale, Orietta Da Rold, John Scattergood, Kathleen L. Scott, Toshiyuki Takamiya, John J. Thompson.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843843757
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Essays exploring different aspects of late medieval and early modern manuscript and book culture. Late medieval manuscripts and early modern print history form the focus of this volume. It includes new work on the compilation of some important medieval manuscript miscellanies and major studies of merchant patronage and of a newly revealed woman patron, alongside explorations of medieval texts and the post-medieval reception history of Langland, Chaucer and Nicholas Love. It thus pays a fitting tribute to the career of Professor A.S.G. Edwards, highlighting his scholarly interests and demonstrating the influence of his achievements. Carol M. Meale is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol; the late Derek Pearsall was Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and Honorary Research Professor at the University of York. Contributors: Nicolas Barker, J.A. Burrow, A.I. Doyle, Martha W. Driver, Susanna Fein, Jane Griffiths, Lotte Hellinga, Alfred Hiatt, Simon Horobin, Richard Linenthal, Carol M. Meale, Orietta Da Rold, John Scattergood, Kathleen L. Scott, Toshiyuki Takamiya, John J. Thompson.