Lost books : : reconstructing the print world of pre-industrial Europe / / edited by Flavia Bruni, Andrew Pettegree.

• Superior document: Library of the Written Word, Volume 34
• TeilnehmendeR: Bruni, Flavia,; Pettegree, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : BRILL,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Library of the written word ; Volume 34.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (541 pages).
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Questions of survival and loss bedevil the study of early printed books. Many early publications are not particularly rare, but others have disappeared altogether. This is clear not only from the improbably large number of books that survive in only one copy, but from many references in contemporary documents to books that cannot now be located. In this volume leading specialists in the field explore different aspects of this poorly understood aspect of book history: classes of texts particularly impacted by poor rates of survival; lost books revealed in contemporary lists or inventories; the collections of now dispersed libraries; deliberate and accidental destruction. A final section describes modern efforts at salvage and restitution following the devastation of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Part 1. In the beginning: lost incunabula -- Part 2. National case-studies -- Part 3. Censorship and its consequences -- Part 4. Libraries, private and public -- Part 5. War and peace: the depredations of modern times.