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.
Single-Sheet Publishing in the First Age of Print
Hardback
Publication Date: 15/08/2017
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.
- ISBN:
- 9789004340305
- 9789004340305
- Category:
- History
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 15-08-2017
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Brill
- Country of origin:
- Netherlands
- Dimensions (mm):
- 235x155mm
- Weight:
- 1kg
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Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500
Cultural studies
Media studies
Communication studies
History
Manufacturing industries
Press & journalism
European history
General & world history
Industry & industrial studies
Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
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