Lost books reconstructing the print world of pre-industrial Europe

Questions of survival and loss bedevil the study of early printed books. Many early publications are not particularly rare, but others have disappeared altogether. This is clear not only from the improbably large number of books that survive in only one copy, but from many references in contemporary...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bruni, Flavia (Editor), Bruni, Flavia, editor (editor), Pettegree, Andrew, editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill 2016
2016.
Series:Library of the written word ; Volume 34.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009646935306719
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. In the beginning: lost incunabula
  • Part 2. National case-studies
  • Part 3. Censorship and its consequences
  • Part 4. Libraries, private and public
  • Part 5. War and peace: the depredations of modern times.