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Augustijn van Hasselt as a printer in Vianen and Wesel

Augustijn van Hasselt as a printer in Vianen and Wesel PAUL VALKEMA BLOUW Augustijn van Hasselt as a printer in Vianen and Wesel Part one What knowledge do we have about the printers and publishers in the Low Countries in the sixteenth century? Apart from a variety of details con- nected with their civil status we know little more than what emerges from the nature and the physical appearance of their publications. There are ex- ceptions, of course: certain important figures like Willem Silvius in Ant- werp and later in Leiden, and above all Christopher Plantin, assume a far more definite identity. So much of Plantin's administration and cor- respondence have survived that we have a clear enough idea of him as a businessman and as a personality for us to be acquainted with all his many qualities without having to rely on outside information. No, or hardly any, such material has survived where other contemporary protagonists in the booktrade of the Low Countries are concerned. The choice and the com- position of their stock and the external aspects of their printed works allow us to give them a particular place as publishers and printers, but as in- dividuals they remain evasive. Curiously enough the contrary is true http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Quaerendo Brill

Augustijn van Hasselt as a printer in Vianen and Wesel

Valkema Blouw, Paul
Quaerendo , Volume 16 (2): 83 – Jan 1, 1986
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Brill
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© 1986 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0014-9527
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1570-0690
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10.1163/157006986X00116
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PAUL VALKEMA BLOUW Augustijn van Hasselt as a printer in Vianen and Wesel Part one What knowledge do we have about the printers and publishers in the Low Countries in the sixteenth century? Apart from a variety of details con- nected with their civil status we know little more than what emerges from the nature and the physical appearance of their publications. There are ex- ceptions, of course: certain important figures like Willem Silvius in Ant- werp and later in Leiden, and above all Christopher Plantin, assume a far more definite identity. So much of Plantin's administration and cor- respondence have survived that we have a clear enough idea of him as a businessman and as a personality for us to be acquainted with all his many qualities without having to rely on outside information. No, or hardly any, such material has survived where other contemporary protagonists in the booktrade of the Low Countries are concerned. The choice and the com- position of their stock and the external aspects of their printed works allow us to give them a particular place as publishers and printers, but as in- dividuals they remain evasive. Curiously enough the contrary is true

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Published: Jan 1, 1986

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