Lotte Hellinga

Incunabula in Transit

People and Trade

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Incunabula in Transit Lotte Hellinga explores trade in early printed books in the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Material evidence (typography, illumination, binding) and historical context deepen understanding of the evolving book trade. Eighteenth-century collectors changed early patterns of ownership.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• XIV, 510 Pp. with a Full Colou edition
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1043g
• ISBN-13: 9789004340350
• ISBN-10: 9004340351
• Artikelnr.: 49104111

Autorenporträt

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).