UID:
almahu_9949702313602882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004311824
Series Statement:
Library of the written word ; v. 46
Content:
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 documents to books that cannot now be located. In this volume leading specialists in the field explore different aspects of this poorly understood aspect of book history: classes of texts particularly impacted by poor rates of survival; lost books revealed in contemporary lists or inventories; the collections of now dispersed libraries; deliberate and accidental destruction. A final section describes modern efforts at salvage and restitution following the devastation of the twentieth century.
Note:
Preliminary Material /
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The Legion of the Lost. Recovering the Lost Books of Early Modern Europe /
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The Gutenberg Galaxy's Dark Matter: Lost Incunabula, and Ways to Retrieve Them /
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Lost Incunable Editions: Closing in on an Estimate /
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Lost Books of Polyphony from Renaissance Spain /
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Lost Books, Lost Libraries, Lost Everything? A Scandinavian Early Modern Perspective /
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In Search of Lost Fortuna. Reconstructing the Publishing History of the Polish Book of Fortune-Telling /
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Lost Print in England: Entries in the Stationers' Company Register, 1557-1640 /
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Survival Factors of Seventeenth-Century Hand-Press Books Published in the Southern Netherlands: The Importance of Sheet Counts, Sammelbände and the Role of Institutional Collections /
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Publicity and Its Uses. Lost Books as Revealed in Newspaper Advertisements in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic /
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Lost Books and Dispersed Libraries in Sicily during the Seventeenth Century /
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Lost Issues and Self-Censorship: Rethinking the Publishing History of Guillaume Budé's De l'Institution du Prince /
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The Editorial History of a Rare and Forbidden Franciscan Book of the Italian Renaissance: The Dialogo della Unione Spirituale di Dio con l'anima by Bartolomeo Cordoni /
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An Unknown Best-Seller: The Confessionario of Girolamo da Palermo /
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The Devil's Trick. Impossible Editions in the Lists of Titles from the Regular Orders in Italy at the End of the Sixteenth Century /
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On the Track of Lost Editions in Italian Religious Libraries at the End of the Sixteenth Century: A Numerical Analysis of the rici Database /
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Loss and Meaning. Lost Books, Bibliographic Description and Significance in a Sixteenth-Century Italian Private Library /
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Confiscated Manuscripts and Books: What Happened to the Personal Library and Archive of Hugo Grotius Following His Arrest on Charges of High Treason in August 1618? /
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Dispersed Collections of Scientific Books: The Case of the Private Library of Federico Cesi (1585-1630) /
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Lost in Plain Sight: Rediscovering the Library of Sir Hans Sloane /
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Book Use and Sociability in Lost Libraries of the Eighteenth Century: Towards a Union Catalogue /
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Lost Books of 'Operation Gomorrah': Rescue, Reconstruction, and Restitution at Hamburg's Library in the Second World War /
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Two Centuries of Looting and the Grand Nazi Book Burning. The Dispersed and Destroyed Libraries of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Historical Losses and Contemporary Attempts at Reconstruction /
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All is not Lost. Italian Archives and Libraries in the Second World War /
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Tracing Lost Broadsheet Ordinances Printed in Sixteenth-Century Cologne /
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Index /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Lost books Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] ISBN 9789004311817
Language:
English
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