Verlagsbuchhandel und verbreitender Buchhandel von der Erfindung des Buchdrucks bis 1700

Duntze, Oliver; Rautenberg, Ursula

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“…This is mainly due to a lack of primary sources for the time before 1700, many of which were handwritten materials and have not been preserved in archives till the present day. 46 For those historic hermeneutical studies, a variety of methods is used from e.g. analytical bibliography or qualitative, less often also quantitative approaches to book production.…”

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Bibliology in Germany — origins, developments and current state

Engl¹

2021

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From its origins in the early modern period up until today, German bibliology has undergone a huge transformation both in terms of its relationship to other subjects and its research areas. The article describes the development of bibliology in Germany from its beginnings in bibliographic and librarian contexts, over its evolvement as a ﬁeld of study in its own rights in the late 18th century, until its current situation as a university subject. Today, German book science is a relatively small discipline which might proﬁt from integration in broader media studies already proposed a decade ago. It has links to many other humanities subjects, especially librarian, literary, linguistic and cultural studies, and sees its task in integrating interdisciplinary research on the book instead of monopolising it. Due to the lack of an overall book theory or model, this also means making use of the research approaches of these adjoining disciplines whenever they seem promising. The bibliological studies on all aspects of books, implicitly oriented on the steps of production, distribution and reception of books and conducted by the few professorial chairs of book science, are complemented by several non-university institutions and research groups.

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Bibliology in Germany — origins, developments and current state

Engl¹

2021

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To Publish, Make Known and Sell or Promoting Printed Books in the Incunabula Period

Lichnerová¹

2021

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The study To Publish, Make Known and Sell is based on verified existence of competition tensions between the 15th century typographers/publishers, related to the absence of functional regulatory tools of book production of the incunabula period. The increase in the number of book-printers within the relatively narrow geographical area, disregard of publishers’ privileges, the emergence of pirated reprints, as well as insufficient self-promotion on the book market through introducing novelties had concentrated typographers’ attention on devising new tools of securing their triumph in publisher’s competition – the so called book advertisements. The author has analysed 44 promotional posters of the incunabula period from several points of view and attempted to identify their design elements, which on the one hand showed signs of certain standardization, while on the other hand they were subject to personal creativity of their creator. She gives detailed overview of the circumstances of the origin, typographic design and contents of book advertisements of several kinds within the context of promoting either the existing or planned editions, of one edition or a group of books; specifically focusing on the unique types of advertising. In conclusion, the author cites the circumstances of the extinction of book advertisements related to the rise of the new promotional tool – booksellers’ catalogue and submits a bibliography of the book advertisements dating from the 15th century.

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Verlagsbuchhandel und verbreitender Buchhandel von der Erfindung des Buchdrucks bis 1700

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Bibliology in Germany — origins, developments and current state

Bibliology in Germany — origins, developments and current state

To Publish, Make Known and Sell or Promoting Printed Books in the Incunabula Period

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