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1 online resource (xvi, 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Library of the written word ; volume 30
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The handpress world ; volume 22
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Library of the written word ; 30.
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Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 22.
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| Summary |
This collection explores the surprising ways by which cheap print moved across Europe, focussing on Italy, the Netherlands and Britain. Looking at pedlars, commerce and communication, it presents a model of textual dissemination and the material and economic premises of European landscapes of print. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the distribution and dissemination of popular print / Roeland Harms, Joad Raymond and Jeroen Salman -- Print peddling and urban culture in Renaissance Italy / Rosa Salzberg -- Pedlars in the Netherlands from 1600 to 1850 : nuisance or necessity? / Jeroen Salman -- 'Selling prints for the Remondini' : Italian pedlars travelling through Europe during the eighteenth century / Alberto Milano -- 'Wandering with pamphlets' : the infrastructure of news circulation in civil war England / Jason Peacey -- The cries of London from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century : a short history / Sean Shesgreen -- Peddling in texts and images : the Dutch visual perspective / Karen Bowen -- Costumes and customs in print : travel, ethnography, and the representation of street-sellers in early modern Italy / Melissa Calaresu -- The dissemination of Quaker pamphlets in the 1650s / Kate Peters -- International news and the seventeenth-century English newspaper / Joad Raymond -- Storehouses of news : the meaning of early modern news periodicals in Western Europe / Joop W. Koopmans -- 'All the world is led and rul'd by opinion' : the relationship between printed news and public opinion / Roeland Harms -- The development and distribution of the first educational print series in the Netherlands, 1800-1820 / Jo Thijssen. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Book industries and trade -- Europe, Western -- History.
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Book industries and trade. |
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Western Europe. |
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History. |
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Printing -- Europe, Western -- History.
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Printing. |
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Publishers and publishing -- Europe, Western -- History.
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Publishers and publishing. |
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European newspapers -- History.
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European newspapers. |
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Popular literature -- Europe, Western -- History.
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Popular literature. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Harms, Roeland, 1979- author, editor.
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Raymond, Joad, author, editor.
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Salman, Jeroen, author, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Not dead things. Leiden : Brill, 2013 9789004253056 (DLC) 2013019491 (OCoLC)848267472 |
| ISBN |
9789004253063 (e-book) |
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9004253068 (e-book) |
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9789004253056 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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900425305X (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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