Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World
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The Handpress World explores the impact of the invention of printing by moveable type from the first experiments of the incunabula age through to the end of the eighteenth century. In this crucial period of book history the new technology both transformed established markets for scholarly and religious literature and found a new public through the rise of the pamphlet and later the newspaper. The series will investigate every aspect of this cultural transformation, from the promotion in print of the great intellectual movements of the day through to the birth of the public library.
Authors are cordially invited to submit book proposals and/or full manuscripts to the Publisher at Brill, Arjan van Dijk.
Authors are cordially invited to submit book proposals and/or full manuscripts to the Publisher at Brill, Arjan van Dijk.
An Anthology
Volume: 159
Self-Translated Books in Early Modern Italy and France
Volume: 160
A Census of Publishers’ and Booksellers’ Advertisements and Catalogues till 1600
Volume: 154
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Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy
Volume: 145
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Volume: 151
The Libraries of the Society of Jesus in the Early Modern Age (1540–1773)
Volume: 148
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A Study, with an Edition of the 1724 Shelf-list
Volume: 146
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The Formation and Use of the Library of Robert Ashley (1565–1641)
Volume: 144
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Essays on Communication and Culture in Early Modern Britain
Volume: 136
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Playbills, Drama and the Teaching of Civic Virtue in the Jesuit Theatre of Poland–Lithuania
Volume: 142
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Clandestine Printing and Scribal Subversion in the English Counter-Reformation
Volume: 140
The Bellicose Days
Volume: 139
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Identities and Strategies in the Book Trade
Volume: 138
Exploring and Reconstructing an Early Modern Private Library as a Book Collection and as a Physical Space
Volume: 134
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The Oriental Bequest of Joseph Scaliger and the University Library of Leiden
Volume: 132
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Copy-Specific Features of Incunabula
Volume: 123
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Volume: 130
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Practices of Reading, Use, and Interaction in Early Modern Dutch Bibles (1522–1546)
Volume: 129
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An Annotated Catalogue
Volume: 125
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An Annotated Catalogue
Volume: 125
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Material, Visual, and Practical Dimensions of Early Modern How-to Books
Volume: 127
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With a Catalogue of Early Printed Books Containing Anglo-Saxon 1566–1705
Volume: 105
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Event, Narration and Impact from Past to Present
Volume: 122
Iconographic Sources and Ideological Content
Volume: 117
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Agents – Networks – Responses
Volume: 119
Volume: 121
Parish Libraries and their Readers in Early Modern England, 1558–1709
Volume: 120
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Studying and Interpreting Sources
Volume: 112
Formation and Relocation of European Libraries in the Confessional Age (c. 1500–c. 1650) and Their Afterlife
Volume: 116
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A Concise History of Paper in Western Europe
Volume: 98
Problems and Perspectives
Volume: 114
Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries
Volume: 111
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Dutch Ministers and the Culture of Print in the Seventeenth Century
Volume: 110
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Essays in Honour of Andrew Pettegree, Volume 2
Volume: 107
Essays in Honour of Andrew Pettegree, Volume 1
Volume: 106
Series Editors
Andrew Pettegree, University of St Andrews
Arthur der Weduwen, University of St Andrews
Editorial Board
Trude Dijkstra, University of Amsterdam
Falk Eisermann, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Shanti Graheli, University of Glasgow
Katherine Halsey, Stirling University
Earle Havens, Johns Hopkins University
Ian Maclean, All Souls College, Oxford
Angela Nuovo, University of Milan
Malcolm Walsby, University of Lyon - École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques (enssib)
Alexander Wilkinson, University College Dublin
Andrew Pettegree, University of St Andrews
Arthur der Weduwen, University of St Andrews
Editorial Board
Trude Dijkstra, University of Amsterdam
Falk Eisermann, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Shanti Graheli, University of Glasgow
Katherine Halsey, Stirling University
Earle Havens, Johns Hopkins University
Ian Maclean, All Souls College, Oxford
Angela Nuovo, University of Milan
Malcolm Walsby, University of Lyon - École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques (enssib)
Alexander Wilkinson, University College Dublin
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“One of the most outstanding series in the field of European book history.”
Mart van Duijn, Leiden University Libraries. In: Quaerendo, Vol. 44, No. 3 (2014).
“One of the most influential early modern book history series currently available.”
Alexander S. Wilkinson, University College Dublin. In: SHARP News, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Autumn 2014), p. 10.
Ruth-Ellen St. Onge, McMaster University. In: SHARP News, November 17th, 2025.
“One of the most outstanding series in the field of European book history.”
Mart van Duijn, Leiden University Libraries. In: Quaerendo, Vol. 44, No. 3 (2014).
“One of the most influential early modern book history series currently available.”
Alexander S. Wilkinson, University College Dublin. In: SHARP News, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Autumn 2014), p. 10.
