Printing Spinoza : : A Descriptive Bibliography of the Works Published in the Seventeenth Century / / Jeroen M. M. van de Ven.

• Superior document: Library of the Written Word Series ; Volume 100
• VerfasserIn: Ven, Jeroen van de,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Library of the written word ; Volume 100.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: In this descriptive bibliography Jeroen van de Ven examines all editions of Spinoza’s writings published between 1663 and 1694: his exposition of Descartes’s ‘Principles’ with the ‘Metaphysical Thoughts’, the ‘Theological-Political Treatise’, and the posthumous writings, with the ‘Ethics’.

"In Printing Spinoza Jeroen van de Ven systematically examines all seventeenth-century printed editions of Spinoza's writings, published between 1663 and 1694, as well as their variant 'issues'. In focus are Spinoza's 1663 adumbration of Rene´ Descartes's 'Principles of Philosophy' with his own 'Metaphysical Thoughts', the 'Theological-Political Treatise' (1670), and the posthumous writings (1677), including the famously-known 'Ethics'. Van de Ven's descriptive bibliography studies, contextualizes, and records all aspects of the publication history of Spinoza's writings from manuscript to print and assesses their immediate reception. It discusses the printed books' codicology, philology, typographical and textual relationships, illustration programmes, as well as their dissemination in early Enlightenment Europe, in view of the physical aspects of 1,246 extant copies and their provenance"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the bibliography -- 'Principles of philosophy' and 'Metaphysical thoughts': Latin and Dutch quartos -- The 'Theological-political treatise': Latin quartos -- The 'Theological-political treatise': Latin octavos -- The 'Theological-political treatise': French duodecimos -- The 'Theological-political treatise': English quarto and octavo -- The 'Theological-political treatise'--Dutch quartos I -- Posthumous writings: Latin and Dutch quartos II -- Posthumous writings: Latin and Dutch quartos III.