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This volume offers an expansive survey of the role of single-sheet publishing in the European print industry during the first two centuries after the invention of printing. Drawing on new materials made available during the compilation of the Universal Short Title Catalogue, the twenty contributors explore the extraordinary range of broadsheet publishing and its contribution to government, pedagogy, religious devotion and entertainment culture.
Long disregarded as ephemera or cheap print, broadsheets emerge both as a crucial communication medium and an essential underpinning of the economics of the publishing industry.
Long disregarded as ephemera or cheap print, broadsheets emerge both as a crucial communication medium and an essential underpinning of the economics of the publishing industry.
Price: $256.00
Pages: 540
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World
Publication Date:
15 August 2017
ISBN: 9789004340305
Format: Other
“This volume will be of great interest to researchers and professionals in history and archival and information science. – Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners.”
J.L. Newman, Hunter College, City University of New York. In: Choice, Vol. 55, No. 7 (March 2018).
“This excellent volume demonstrates the value of collaborative, integrated, and wide-ranging work on broadsheets. It is not only an immensely valuable reference work in itself; it also points the way to further discoveries and new understandings of the multivalent role of this ubiquitous format in the future.”
Elma Brenner, Angela McShane, and Julia Nurse, Wellcome Collection. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Spring 2020), pp. 276–277.
“This volume represents an important and valuable addition to the study of the early modern broadsheet. [...] it will be a necessary accession for many research libraries and will be a key point of reference for individuals working in the field”.
Kelsey Jackson Williams, University of Stirling. In: Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, No. 13 (2018).
J.L. Newman, Hunter College, City University of New York. In: Choice, Vol. 55, No. 7 (March 2018).
“This excellent volume demonstrates the value of collaborative, integrated, and wide-ranging work on broadsheets. It is not only an immensely valuable reference work in itself; it also points the way to further discoveries and new understandings of the multivalent role of this ubiquitous format in the future.”
Elma Brenner, Angela McShane, and Julia Nurse, Wellcome Collection. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Spring 2020), pp. 276–277.
“This volume represents an important and valuable addition to the study of the early modern broadsheet. [...] it will be a necessary accession for many research libraries and will be a key point of reference for individuals working in the field”.
Kelsey Jackson Williams, University of Stirling. In: Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, No. 13 (2018).
Andrew Pettegree is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue. His books include The Book in the Renaissance (2010), The Invention of News (2014) and Brand Luther: 1517, Print and the Making of the Reformation (2015).