The Handpress World : Documenting the Early Modern Book World
Inventories and Catalogues in Manuscript and Print
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Word Count
108,000 words, Guess
Page Count
432 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL29694579M
- ISBN-139789004258907
- OCLC Control Number857287789
- Library of Congress Control Number2013029371
Classifications
- LCCZ2000.D63 2013eb
Description
"Scholars of pre-modern literary culture rely almost exclusively on texts that have survived: mostly those that have reached the comparative safety of modern library collections. But the urge to record, catalogue and advertise the wealth of new publications in the age of print created an additional and valuable resource: book lists. Printers made lists of their available stock; owners catalogued their libraries; religious authorities drew up indexes of banned books; assessors inventoried collections and stock as part of the settlement of estates, or legal proceedings. This volume examines an array of such lists taken from a variety of European countries during the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The result is a wide-ranging re-evaluation of one of the most interesting and underused resources for early modern book history."--
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