The bookshop of the world: the role of the Low Countries in the book-trade, 1473-1941

Abstract

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.

Contents

The bookshop of the world : books and their makers as agents of cultural exchange / Lotte Hellinga -- The fortunes and misfortunes of book publishing in Flanders / Ludo Simons -- Boethius's Consolatio philosophiae and the early printing tradition / Mariken Goris -- Flemish-English cultural connections : William Caxton and his cultural revolution / Sorin Ciutacu -- Mariken van Nieumeghen and Mary of Nemmegen : a hopeless case? / Riccardo Rizza -- A bookshop for a new age : the inventory of the bookshop of the Louvain bookseller Hieronymus Cloet, 1543 / Pierre Delsaerdt -- The English book in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic / Paul G. Hoftijzer -- Anglo-Dutch publishing during the eighty years' war (1568-1648) / Hugh Dunthorne -- Editing, printing publishing and selling the life and death of Lady Jane Grey in 1607 / Karel Bostoen -- The Elzeviers and England / Frans Korsten -- London, Antwerp and Amsterdam : journalistic relations in the first half of the seventeenth century / Paul Arblaster -- The exile experience : Royalist and Anglican book culture in the Low Countries (1640-60) / Marika Keblusek -- Crispijn de Passe : his books and prints for the English market / Ilja M. Veldman -- Thomas Jenner : English emblems and their models from the Low Countries / John H. Astington -- 'Return my woodblocks at once' : dealings between the Antwerp publisher Balthasar Moretus and the London bookseller Richard Whitacker in the seventeenth century / Dirk Imhof -- Representations of Europe in cartography and iconography from the Low Countries / Michael Wintle -- Dr. James's legacy : Dutch printing and the history of medicine / Vivian Nutton -- The impact of Dutch medical authors in German translation (1680-1720) / Annette Munt -- The publishing of forbidden philosophical works in the Dutch Republic (1666-1710) and their European distribution / Jonathan Israel -- Credit, cash and customers : Cornelius Crownfield and Anglo-Dutch trade in the early eighteenth century / David McKitterick -- Book sale catalogues in the Dutch Republic, 1599-1800 / B.P.M. Dongelmans -- Buying books by mail order : a Swedish customer and Dutch booksellers in the eighteenth century / Tomas Anfält -- B.S. Nayler and the emergence of the remainder trade / Lisa Kuitert -- The widening circle : contacts between Dutch and English publishers and booksellers in the second half of the nineteenth century / B.P.M. Dongelmans -- The patriotic reaction in 1940-41 in the Netherlands and France : a comparative analysis / Dick van Galen Last.