Incunabula in Transit

People and Trade

Lotte Hellinga

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Brill
13 March 2018

Printing, packaging & reprographic industry; Printing & reprographic technology

Series: Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World

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.

By: Lotte Hellinga
Imprint: Brill
Edition: xiv, 530 pp. With a full colour section.
Volume: 62
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 975g
ISBN: 9789004340350
ISBN 10: 9004340351
Series: Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World
Pages: 544
Publication Date: 13 March 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Leather / fine binding
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments List of Figures Abbreviations Introduction 1 Book Auctions in the Fifteenth Century 2 Advertising and Selling Books in the Fifteenth Century 3 Nicolas Jenson, Peter Schoeffer and the Development of Printing Types 4 Peter Schoeffer: Publisher and Bookseller 5 The Mainz Catholicon 1460-1470: An Experiment in Book Production and the Book Trade 6 Fragments Found in Bindings: The Complexity of Evidence for the Earliest Dutch Typography 7 Prelates in Print 8 William Caxton, Colard Mansion and the Printer in Type 1 9 Wynkyn de Worde's Native Land 10 Aesopus Moralisatus, Antwerp, 1488 in England 11 An Early Eighteenth-century Sale of Mainz Incunabula by the Frankfurt Dominicans in co-authorship with Margaret Nickson 12 A Caxton Tract-volume from Thomas Rawlinson's Library in co-authorship with Margaret Nickson 13 Buying Incunabula in Venice and Milan: The Bibliotheca Smithiana Index Colour Illustrations

Lotte Hellinga, Litt.D. (1974, University of Amsterdam) was, until 1995, Deputy Keeper at the British Library, where she initiated the ISTC database and completed the BMC incunabula catalogue. She published extensively on book history, early typography, the book trade and textual transmission in incunabula. Her most recent book is Texts in Transit (Brill, 2014).

Reviews for Incunabula in Transit: People and Trade

An intellectual tour de force in the oeuvre of one of our most renowned book historians and incunabulists. Carol M. Meale, in: The Book Collector, Vol. 67. No. 3 (Autumn 2018), pp. 600-603 Lotte Hellinga hoort tot de top in het veld . In deze bundel geeft Lotte Hellinga [...] een helder beeld van de werkwijze van de incunabulistiek, de hogeschool onder de disciplines die de boekwetenschap uitmaken. (Lotte Hellinga is among the top in the field . In this volume, Lotte Hellinga provides [...] a clear picture of the working method of incunabulistics, the honors college among the disciplines that make up book history.) Frans A. Janssen, in: De Boekenwereld, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2018), pp. 88-89