HELLINGA, LOTTE and others
The Bookshop of the World. The Role Of The Low Countries In The Booktrade 1473-1941
Goy-Houten, Hes de Graaf, 2001. 332 pp. Very good copy. Orig. yellow cloth. Proceedings of a Conference held in London, 15-17 september 1999, organized by The Association for Low Countries Studies, University College London, Centre for Dutch and Flemish Culture, The British Library, Dutch and Flemish section. Booklore, Netherlands, Flanders, Amsterdam. Twenty-five papers by experts in their particular period or area were selected for publication. Covering almost five centuries, they represent a wholly modern approach to the history of the book and publishing in a European context, highlighting for the first time the crucial role of the Low Countries in transmitting the intellectual heritage of an area well beyond their own - changing - borders. Includes contr. by J. Israel: The publishing of forbidden philosophical works in the Dutch republic (1666-1710) and their European distribution. ISBN: 9789061940395
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