Lost Books

Questions of survival and loss bedevil the study of early printed books. Many early publications are not particularly rare, but many have disappeared altogether. Here leading specialists in the field explore different strategies for recovering this lost world of print.

A propos de l'auteur

Flavia Bruni is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Rome La Sapienza and a Honorary Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews. She is responsible for the survey of seventeenthcentury Italian editions for the Universal Short Title Catalogue and currently working on her second monograph on censorship in Counter-Reformation Italy (forthcoming Brill, 2017).
Andrew Pettegree is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue. He is the author of over a dozen books in the fields of Reformation history and the history of communication. His new projects include a study of Newspaper Advertising in the Low Countries and 'Preserving the World's Rarest Books', a collaborative project with libraries funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Détails du produit

• Collaboration: Flavia Bruni (Editeur), Andrew Pettegree (Editeur)
• Edition: de Gruyter Brill
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 19.04.2016
• EAN: 9789004311817
• ISBN: 978-90-04-31181-7
• Pages: 544
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 241 mm x 38 mm
• Poids: 995 g
• Thème: Library of the Written Word
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Général, dictionnaires