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Books and their makers during the Middle Ages

Chapter 1: Transcriber’s note
By George Haven Putnam
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An account of how printing and publishing operated in the early modern centuries, concentrating on printer-publishers and the commercial and institutional forces that shaped production and distribution between about 1500 and 1709. It traces the persistence of reprinting classical, biblical, and scholastic texts, the Reformation-driven surge in pamphlets and fly-sheet literature that created a mass reading public, changes in book formats and marketing, the networks for distribution including itinerant dealers, and the reciprocal growth of ecclesiastical and state censorship as authorities sought to control the new printed discourse.

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Title: Books and their makers during the Middle Ages

A study of the conditions of the production and distribution of literature from the fall of the Roman empire to the close of the seventeenth century, Vol. II

Author: George Haven Putnam

Release date: December 2, 2023 [eBook #72282]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1896

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Transcriber’s note

Variable spelling and hyphenation have been retained. Minor punctuation inconsistencies have been silently repaired. A list of the changes made can be found at the end of the book.

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