Illustration and Ornamentation in the Iberian Book World, 1450-1800 / / edited by Alexander Samuel Wilkinson.

• Superior document: Library of the Written Word ; 91
• TeilnehmendeR: Wilkinson, Alexander Samuel,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Library of the Written Word ; 91.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

In the early modern Iberian book world, as in the European book world more broadly, most works issuing from the presses contained some form of ornamentation. The nineteen contributions presented here cast light on these visual elements-on the production and ownership of printers' materials, and on the frequency with which these materials were exchanged and shared. A third of all items printed in the early modern Iberian world carried no imprint at all; for these items, woodblocks and engravings can assist scholars seeking to identify their place of origin or their date of publication. As importantly, decoration and illustration in early print can also reveal much about the history of the graphic arts and evolving forms of cultural representation.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- Alexander S. Wilkinson -- PART I -- Research Infrastructure -- 1. From Bibliography to Data Analytics, Convolutional Neural Networks and Image Recognition: The Journey of the Iberian Books Project -- Alexander S. Wilkinson -- 2. An Introduction to the Database Printers' Devices of the University of Barcelona -- Neus Verger Arce -- PART II -- Printers' Materials -- 3. Illustrating and Publishing on the Hand-Press in Spain from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century: The Ownership of Icono-Typographic Resources -- Manuel-José Pedraza-Gracia -- 4. Woodcuts and Engravings in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Sources: a Starting-Point -- Helena Carvajal González -- 5. The Woodblocks and Initial Capitals used by Juan de Cánova in Salamanca (1553-1569) -- Isabel Cristina Díez Ménguez -- 6. Engraved and Inhabited Initials used in Sixteenth-Century Mexican Printing -- Guadalupe Rodríguez Domínguez -- PART III -- Describing Type and Identifying Printers -- 7. The Typefaces of Three Fifteenth-Century Castilian Printers: A Comparative Study -- Benito Rial-Costas -- 8. Typography and illustration in fifteenth-century Salamanca: the Porras press -- María Eugenia López Varea -- 9. Chipped Old Blocks and Battered Old Type: Piracy in Golden-Age Spain -- Don W. Cruickshank -- PART IV -- Illustrations -- 10. Visual Culture in the Hagiographies and Sacred Biographies of Early Modern Portugal -- Paula Almeida Mendes -- 11. Book Illustration in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries: the First Editions of the Siete Sabios de Roma -- Nuria Aranda García -- 12. Ornamentation in the Spanish editions of the Crónica Troyana , 1490-1587 -- María Sanz Julián -- 13. A Sixteenth Century Board Game by João de Barros -- Celeste Pedro -- 14. Writ Large: Printing, Painting and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century America -- Thomas Cummins -- 15. Illustration and Ornamentation in the Works of Luke Wadding, Seventeenth-Century Historian and Theologian -- Benjamin Hazard -- 16. Illustrating a Family. The Printing Press and Political Issues in the Ritratti della Prosapia et Heroi Moncadi nella Sicilia -- Domenico Ciccarello -- 17. A Vision of Political Discourse in Goa c.1659, and Two Episodes in the Circulation of Illustrated Manuscripts -- Jeremy Roe & Ângela Barreto-Xavier -- 18. Illustrating Golden Age Spanish Drama -- Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo -- 19. Spanish Book Illustration and the Hijos de la Academia -- Kelly Donahue-Wallace.