Download or read book The Golden Compasses written by Léon Voet and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rouen During the Wars of Religion written by Philip Benedict and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the history of a single French community over the full course of the civil wars.
Download or read book Great Historical Geographical and Poetical Dictionary written by Louis Moreri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliopolis written by Marieke T. G. E. van Delft and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibliopolis is an electronic national history of the printed book in the Netherlands, presented by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. All kinds of subjects are addressed: printing presses, bookbinders, schoolbooks, book burnings, bookshops, hawking, illustrations, publishing companies, readers and newspapers. Text and illustrations are derived from the electronic Bibliopolis system.
Download or read book The Bookshop of the World written by Lotte Hellinga and published by Gwasg y Bwthyn. This book was released on 2001 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of a Conference held in London, 15-17 September 1999, organized by The Association for Low Countries Studies, University College London, Centre for Dutch and Flemish Culture, The British Library, Dutch and Flemish section, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. Twenty-five papers by experts in their particular period or area were selected for publication. Covering almost five centuries, they represent a wholly modern approach to the history of the book and publishing in a European context, highlighting for the first time the crucial role of the Low Countries in transmitting the intellectual heritage of an area well beyond their own changing borders. Illustrated.
Download or read book Formation of a Provincial Nobility written by Jonathan Dewald and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of one group of the new nobility, Jonathan Dewald argues that the origin, attitudes, and behavior of the noblesse de robe were in fundamental ways similar to those of the old nobility. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book James Mosley written by Justin Howes and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Mosley, noted printing and graphic arts scholar, was librarian of the St Bride Printing Library for many years. For the first time a comprehensive selection of his writings from a wide range of sources have been brought together in one place. This is an invaluable collection for those interested in the history of graphic design and the book arts. Some examples: "Trajan Revived, " Alphabet 1, 1964 "English Vernacular: a study in traditional letter-forms, " Motif 11, 1963-4 "French academicians and modern typography: designing new typefaces in the 1690s, " Typography Papers, no. 2, 1997 "The Typefoundry of Vincent Figgins 1792-1836, " Motif 1, November 1958
Download or read book The London Book Trade written by Robin Myers and published by Oak Knoll Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London as a center for business and culture provided the essential focus for the development of the English book trade. In physically constricted urban spaces, printing, bookselling and all the associated activities were organized in intricate topographical patterns. How this worked on the ground provides the central theme of the volume, containing essays by specialists in a variety of fields. Several chapters explore the communities of printers and booksellers around St. Paul's Cathedral and its neighborhood in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Other topics range across the areas of London associated with the print trade, and with French emigres in the book trade, to the output of private presses in the London suburbs in the nineteenth century.
Download or read book The Prosecution of Heresy written by John A. Tedeschi and published by Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). This book was released on 1991 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of studies on the judicial processes by which the Inquisition combatted Protestantism, witchcraft and occultism.
