Vine Leaf Ornaments in Renaissance Typography: A Survey
In the course of the early sixteenth century the printed book decoration underwent a double metamorphosis. First stylistically, through the replacement of the previous medieval mostly floral embellishments by new motifs copied from Islamic or Byzantine sources, or borrowed from antiquity. Second t... More info
Virtue by Design: Illustrated Chinese Children`s Books from the Cotsen Childrens Library
The Chinese holdings of the Cotsen Children`s Library consist of more than 35,000 items from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. The collection comprises the entire range of printed matter a child might encounter in his or her daily life. Primers, textbooks, song books, arts and crafts handbooks,... More info
Vision in motion. L’avant-garde hongroise : éditeurs, typographes, artistes du livre. De Hongaarse avant-garde...
Exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Bibliotheca Wittockiana, 30 October 1999 - 30 January 2000. More info
VOC. A bibliography of publications relating to the Dutch East India Company: 1602-1800. Edited by P. van der ...
At the height of its power and influence in the seventeenth and eighteenth century the VOC - acronym for the United Netherland East India Company -was the greatest commercial concern in the world. The scope of its activities extended from the Cape of Good Hope to Japan. In some aspects, the Baltic t... More info
Watermarks 1600-1650 found in the Zeeland Archives
With this work the authors are filling a gap which is existing on the research material of watermarks of the seventeenth century. The research for this book is based on the X-ray method developed by Jan van Aken, emiritus professor dental radiology of the University of Utrecht. This method guarentee... More info
Watermarks 1650-1700 found in the Zeeland Archives
The seventeenth century is an underrepresented period in the publications on watermarks. A growing demand in the fields of history and art history for exact dating of documents and artworks on seventeenth century paper was one of the main reasons for the authors to conduct research in this area.... More info
Watermarks in Paper in Holland, England, France, etc. in the XVII and XVIII centuries and their interconnecti...
The extensive introduction contains inter alia an alphabetical List of Dutch papermakers, a list of French paper-makers who worked for the Dutch market, and a list of British paper-makers and mills. At the end a survey of particulars concerning the watermarks in question. The corpus of the work is s... More info
Women in revolutionary debate. Female novelists from Burney to Austen.
In the later eighteenth and earlier nineteenth centuries novels were believed to have the power to shape and/or change behaviour, and, by implication, affect the political landscape of society on a large scale. The English response to the French Revolution can be traced through a reading of the nove... More info
Zuidnederlandse boekdrukkers en boekverkopers in de Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden omstreeks 1570-1630. E...
This bio-bibliographical study concentrates on printers, publishers and booksellers, who originated in the Southern Netherlands and who were active in the Dutch Republic c. 1570-1630. It is largely based on archive materials and numerous new data are brought to light. By far the greater part of this... More info