Incunabula in transit : people and trade /

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Author / Creator:	Hellinga, Lotte, author.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Library of the Written Word ; volume 62. The Handpress World ; volume 47 Library of the written word ; 62. Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 47.
Subject:	Incunabula -- Europe. Book industries and trade -- Europe -- History -- To 1500. Printing -- Europe -- History -- Origin and antecedents. Book industries and trade. Incunabula. Printing -- Origin and antecedents. Europe. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12282730

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ISBN:	9789004340367 900434036X 9789004340350 9004340351
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Summary:	"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"--
Other form:	Print version: Hellinga, Lotte. Incunabula in transit. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] 9789004340350

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