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The History of Book Ciphers [PDF]
, 2007 You can do a lot with a book, besides read it! In fact, we know that by 1526 — some 70 years after Gutenberg printed his first Bible — at least one of out forebears, Jacobus Silvestri, was thinking of how a book might be used for cryptographic purposes.
Albert C. Leighton, Stephen M. Matyas
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Investigating Book Prices in Early Modern Europe: Questions and Sources
JLIS.it, 2017 This paper presents a summary of the conceptual framework within which a study of book prices should take place and the research issues, as well as the methodological problems, which need to be addressed. Although the nature of books as semi-industrial
Angela Nuovo, Francesco Ammannati
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A Not So Global History of the Book
MatLit, 2015 A review of Michael F. SUAREZ S.J., H.R. WOUDHUYSEN, eds., The Book: A Global History, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, 748 pp.
Cardoso, Catarina Figueiredo
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‘Vem de longe a marca do suporte material’: Uma Entrevista com João Luís Lisboa
MatLit, 2014 In this interview João Luís Lisboa talks about the History of the Book as a discipline, and about the forms and uses of books.
Abel Barros Baptista
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Bibliothecae.it, 2021 Born in Antwerp and living in Portugal, the diamond cutter João Stooter acquired some prominence in the 18th century when he produced an armory manual and an artistic recipe book.
René Lommez Gomes
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Book History in the Nordic Countries [PDF]
Mémoires du livre, 2022 What characterizes Nordic book history? This was the first thing on our minds when we considered the present special issue of Mémoires du livre – Studies in Book Culture. Setting out on the project and distributing the call for papers we hoped to come up with some sort of answer to our question.
Hansen, Poul Henning Gustaf +1 more
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JLIS.it, 2020 The EMoBookTrade project, funded by the European Research Council and directed by Angela Nuovo, has developed a database on book prices (ca. 1530-1630) and book privileges (Venice, 1469 to 1603).
Giliola Barbero +8 more
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Gathering and Scattering Emily Dickinson’s Poetry
Sillages Critiques, 2022 The composition of Emily Dickinson’s poetic work has implied many stages of unbinding and rebinding her poems, from her own self-publishing practices (the now famous “fascicles”), through three editions of her Complete Poems (Johnson 1955, Franklin 1998,
Antoine Cazé
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