The Handpress World explores the impact of the invention of printing by moveable type from the first experiments of the incunabula age through to the end of the eighteenth century. In this crucial period of book history the new technology both transformed established markets for scholarly and religious literature and found a new public through the rise of the pamphlet and later the newspaper. The series will investigate every aspect of this cultural transformation, from the promotion in print of the great intellectual movements of the day through to the birth of the public library.
Series Editors
Andrew Pettegree, University of St Andrews
Arthur der Weduwen, University of St Andrews
Editorial Board
Ann Blair, Harvard University
Falk Eisermann, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Shanti Graheli, University of Glasgow
Earle Havens, Johns Hopkins University
Ian Maclean, All Souls College, Oxford
Alicia Montoya, Radboud University
Angela Nuovo, University of Milan
Helen Smith, University of York
Mark Towsey, University of Liverpool
Malcolm Walsby, University of Lyon - École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques (enssib)
“One of the most influential early modern book history series currently available.”
Alexander S. Wilkinson, University College Dublin. In: SHARP News, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Autumn 2014), p. 10.
“One of the most outstanding series in the field of European book history.”
Mart van Duijn, Leiden University Libraries. In: Quaerendo, Vol. 44, No. 3 (2014).