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The history of publishing in Poland encompasses many issues associated with the emergence and dissemination of printed books. Of fundamental significance to the study of these issues are the records of the publishing output: while we have nearly complete, though still underexamined, records of this output for the period from the 15th to the 18th century, documented in bibliographies and catalogues, the situation is worse when it comes to the 19th and 20th centuries, until the outbreak of the Second World War. In this respect, what we need is not only a continuation, but a radical intensification of bibliographic work. This concerns works published in the Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Greek scripts, as well as musical notation. Polish book scholars have devoted a lot of attention to the beginnings of printing in Poland. The historiography concerning various typographic workshops located in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is rich; however, it still requires further extensive studies. Scholars have also been interested in phenomena influ- encing the content structure of printed publications, such as publishing privileges (in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth), censorship and restrictions imposed by the partitioning powers and later by Poland’s communist authorities, as a result of which Polish publications had to be printed abroad and an independent publishing movement emerged. The scholars’ research interests have also focused on books as products of printers and publishers and on the publication of written works. Scholars have examined both the various components of the book (title page, printer’s signet, stemmata, etc.) and its editorial composition as a whole. Their undoubted achievements in the studies of the history of publishing in Poland are significant, yet in many areas they need to be continued and expanded (one important task is the edition of sources for the study of the history of Polish publishing) and to investigate the phenomena that stem from developmental tendencies in modern book studies.

The article discusses the importance of gaining knowledge in book history for early-career special collections librarians. It highlights the challenges of finding educational opportunities in this field and suggests that a practicum can be a valuable way to learn practical book history. The author shares their experience designing a practicum at their workplace, the Wangensteen Historical Library, and describes the three units they focused on: scholarly reading, seeking out connections with professionals, and creating a digital resource. The article concludes by emphasizing the accessibility of introductory texts and the value of building professional relationships to learn from experts in the field. [Extracted from the article]

The field of history of science has evolved and diversified over the past few decades, encompassing not only the natural sciences, medicine, and mathematics, but also the social sciences, humanities, and the study of the relationship between science and technology. The discipline has embraced inter- and transnational perspectives, as well as postcolonial and decolonial aspects. The history of science has become an interdisciplinary field, exploring the relationship between science and other forms of knowledge. This special issue aims to highlight the diversity and vibrancy of current research topics and approaches in the histories of science, including the history of the humanities, social sciences, mathematics, communication practices, digital history, and the role of technology. The contributions also demonstrate the connections between histories of science and other fields of historical research, such as gender history, colonial history, media history, and environmental history. [Extracted from the article]

Amazon has radically changed the publishing world. And this transformation is so profound that everything done before by the publishing industry today is seen as the product of an apathetic industry, chronically indifferent to change. Nothing could be further from the truth, as this text tries to highlight, and in an attempt to demystify this view, it recovers four moments and areas of the past history of publishing, all with transformative effects that still influence our practices: labor, intellectual property, Christmas celebrations and mass consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In medieval bestiaries, knowledge about animals and their behavior is regularly given a Christian moral interpretation. This article explores the use of imagery related to the bestiary tradition in three Hebrew books made around the year 1300, focusing especially on the richly decorated Rothschild Pentateuch (Los Angeles, Getty Museum MS 116). These Hebrew books signal how bestiary knowledge and its visual expression could be adapted to enrich the experience of medieval Jewish reader-viewers, adding to our understanding of Jewish-Christian interactions in medieval Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this essay, I give a labor history of the commonly used database Early English Books Online. EEBO began its life as a mirofilm archive produced beginning in 1940: a massive book-copying project was undertaken during World War II to protect rare books from German bombs. These reproductions were made largely by unnamed woman archivists and led by a team of woman photographers, academics, and secretaries. In this essay, I draw on existing theories and histories of EEBO while highlighting these women's work, which manifests in the photographs through the shadows of the fingertips they used to pin down the fragile books. This archive of reproductive labor exemplifies the artificial divide between auteur and stenographer, artist and secretary, that animated many of the early twentieth century's avant-garde movements, including ones in which EEBO photographers were intimately involved. The fingers represent the custodial labor of women working across artistic and administrative modes during World War II and the decades that followed. Centering photographed fingertips in a feminist labor history of Early English Books Online. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este artículo hace un cuestionamiento al significado típico del término incunable. Primero porque las fechas que lo definen no tiene un fundamento sólido. Segundo porque definirlo desde la temporalidad excluye una serie de elementos que son claves para el nacimiento y la fijación del libro. En 1982, el historiador norteamericano Robert Darnton, en su célebre artículo, extendió la historia del libro más allá del objeto ampliándola a los circuitos de la comunicación y a los diferentes agentes relacionados con su producción y usos, a saber: autores, editores, impresores, proveedores, vendedores, lectores y encuadernadores (1982). Esta revisión bibliográfica recupera otras aristas que también definen al incunable pero que han sido desatendidas e intenta abordar el nacimiento del libro desde los circuitos de la comunicación y no solo desde la temporalidad. Igualmente, reúne hechos, discusiones y definiciones que se conocen poco en el idioma español, y que permitirán a especialistas y divulgadores tener una mayor claridad sobre los libros del siglo XV = This article questions the typical meaning of the term incunabula. Firstly, because the date that defines it does not have a solid foundation. Secondly, because defining it from temporality excludes a series of elements that are key to the birth and establishment of the book. The American historian Robert Darnton, in his famous article, extended the history of the book beyond the object, extending it to communication circuits and the different agents related to its production and uses, namely: authors, publishers, printers, suppliers, sellers, readers, and bookbinders (1982). This bibliographic review recovers other aspects that also define the incunabulum but that have been neglected and attempts to address the birth of the book from the circuits of communication and not only from temporality. Likewise, it brings together facts, discussions and definitions that are little known in the Spanish language, and that will allow specialists and communicators to have greater clarity about the books of the 15th century.

This article questions the typical meaning of the term incunabula. Firstly, because the date that defines it does not have a solid foundation. Secondly, because defining it from temporality excludes a series of elements that are key to the birth and establishment of the book. The American historian Robert Darnton, in his famous article, extended the history of the book beyond the object, extending it to communication circuits and the different agents related to its production and uses, namely: authors, publishers, printers, suppliers, sellers, readers, and bookbinders (1982). This bibliographic review recovers other aspects that also define the incunabulum but that have been neglected and attempts to address the birth of the book from the circuits of communication and not only from temporality. Likewise, it brings together facts, discussions and definitions that are little known in the Spanish language, and that will allow specialists and communicators to have greater clarity about the books of the 15th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article examines an idiosyncratic, lavishly illustrated mid-Tudor English printed book, John Heywood's The Spider and the Flie (1556), a book condemned both in the sixteenth century and since as incomprehensible and virtually unreadable. The article argues, rather, that the book's gestation period was long and complex, but that, once this is understood, the book becomes readily comprehensible, in both its structure and implications. It looks briefly at evidence for ownership of the book, and then moves to discuss what it, along with Heywood's collected volumes of proverbs and epigrams, can contribute to a discussion of early-modern popular literature, the subject of the UNA Europa funded network, Popular Respublica Litteraria, to which this article is a contribution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I investigate how Joseph Ames construed knowledge about the past as he examined early English printed artifacts. I analyze Ames’s Typographical Antiquities (1749) and three main groups of handwritten sources directly related to his editorial project. In a first step, I follow Ames’s papers to showcase how an eighteenth-century antiquarian developed a laborious system for managing bibliographical data, about which he was either informed or which he had judiciously observed. The second part of the paper delves into the groundbreaking innovation of the book published in 1749: the study and classification of types. Here, I explore how evidence of the English printed past was not only collected and classified but also (re)produced in Ames’s printed work. In the third and fourth steps, I investigate how the plates commissioned in the eighteenth century for the English Typographical Antiquities could authoritatively visualize fifteenth-century (typo)graphical evidence. Here, handwritten, drawn, and printed testimonies related to the making of those plates reveal that an empirical approach to the material remains of the past was pivotal to the construction of early modern knowledge.

Kees Zandvliet's book, "De wereld van de familie Blaeu," challenges the traditional narrative surrounding the Blaeu family, famous printer-publishers during the Dutch seventeenth century. Zandvliet argues that the reputation of the Blaeus as embodying a Golden Age of ascent, extension, and decline is an inadequate story of national success. Instead, he presents a nuanced picture of struggle, success, competition, and collaboration that is more persuasive and culturally sensitive. The book also highlights the role of female agency in the male-dominated Dutch Republic and sheds light on the underrepresented individuals, such as women and the enslaved, who contributed to the visual and material splendor of the Dutch seventeenth century. [Extracted from the article]

Book review of Teaching the History of the Book, edited by Matteo Pangallo and Emily B. Todd.

In the second half of the sixteenth century, the Jesuits considered the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth a missionary territory. This perception was linked to the exceptional writing and publishing activity. The Jesuits not only had about seven hundred editions of their writings published before 1620, they also established their own printing presses. This article identifies the main purposes of Jesuit publishing activity, demonstrates the Society's proficiency with various printed media and reflects on their role in the dissemination of printing craft throughout the Commonwealth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This introductory article employs the Scottish Jesuit John Hay as a starting point for a wider exploration of the relationship between Jesuits and print, the theme of this special issue. Hay demonstrates how important print could be to a Jesuit's self-worth and identity. In this, as contemporary catalogs of Jesuit publications attest, he was not alone, but he was a controversial outlier. Hay's superiors prevented him from continuing a vociferous polemical exchange and appeared to guide him towards a more suitable subject: translations of missionary reports. Hay's career in print points to the importance of geography and context in shaping Jesuit publications, and to the conflicts between individual authorial projects and institutional restraints. His example shows above all that the commonplace equation of Jesuits with print requires urgent historical investigation. The essays presented here seek to remedy this oversight by paying attention to Jesuits as authors, printers, and readers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Distant reading promises access to "the great unread", which should allow scholars to rethink the history of literature. However, the rise in volume of data does not guarantee the understanding of a corpus and its relation to the literary population. This article discusses how a "complete" corpus of the 19th-century poetry books in Russian might be collected with account for historical data and potential survivorship bias. Even if bibliographical sources cannot provide a complete list of books printed in a given period, the amount of "incompleteness" can be directly estimated with the unseen species models. The estimation of survival ratios for printed poetry shows differences in the loss rate across different types of sources: with conventional editions, like books and anthologies, are well-preserved, while booklets and pamphlets are the largest expected source of loss. These findings allow us to estimate what an "exhaustive" corpus can look like and define the features of "the unread" and "unseen" inside it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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"The Contemporary Small Press: Making Publishing Visible" is a collection of essays edited by Georgina Colby, Kaja Marczewska, and Leigh Wilson. The book explores the world of small presses in the UK and the US, with a focus on their history, artistry, and impact on the publishing industry. The essays cover a range of topics, including the relationship between small presses and modernist experiments, the publishing history of black poet Gwendolyn Brooks, and the role of small presses in promoting inclusive literature. While the book provides valuable insights into the small press sector, it acknowledges the challenge of comprehensively representing such a diverse and extensive industry. [Extracted from the article]

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In the article, the author discusses the challenges in the diagnosis of dizziness and other similar conditions like benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) and acute vestibular syndrome (AVS). Other topics include the book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" by Thomas Kuhn and how the paradigm about dizziness has shifted.

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The presentation of two recent studies which explore the history of printing in Ferrara from the 16th to the 18th century (Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, Ferrara, 9 November 2022) is the starting point for debating about methodology, especially in relation to the cultural profile of the scholar dedicated to this task: the historian of the book.

This article is dedicated to the study of the history of the Cyrillic Four Gospels BJ 941 from the manuscript section of the Department of Special Collections of the Jagiellonian Library in Krakow. The study defines that the Gospels were rewritten on a paper variety, the identification of its watermarks implies that the book was created in the last third of the 16thcentury. The analysis of the manuscript margins indicates that the manuscript was rewritten and purchased in Stryi, in the former Przemyśl region. The study of four gift records of the 16thand 17th centuries draws an understanding of how the manuscript has functioned and migrated at the appointed time. First, after the purchase, the codex was donated to the church of Paraskeva Piatnytsa in the Pietniczany village in the Lviv region. In 1641 the codex was gifted over to the Church of the Beheading of John the Baptist in Rozhysche, Sataniv povit. Between 1649 and 1678 the Gospels were presented to the Church of the Intercession of the Virgin in Vinnytsia. In 1678 the book appeared in the Church of the Intercession in the village of Nekhaiky in the Cherkasy region. In the 19th century, the Gospels belonged to the private library of Stanisław Krzyżanowski, who in 1870 donated the manuscript to the Jagiellonian Library.

The old book collection of the University Library of Cluj -Napoca contains items of mixed origins: The library of the Transylvanian Museum Association, the book collection of the university, the library of the Reformed College of Orăștie (Szászváros) etc. The goal of this paper is to present a segment of this diverse collection: We have selected fifteen protestant theologians, so-called "protestant reformers," who were active during the 16th century: Martin Luther, Philipp Melanchthon, Georg Major, Johann Brenz, David Chyträus, John Calvin, Thédore de Béze, Pietro Martire Vermigli, Heinrich Bullinger, Rudolf Gwalther, Ludwig Lavater, Johannes Oekolampad, Wolfgang Musculus, Benedictus Aretius and Girolamo Zanchi. I have examined a total of 97 prints from this theologians. Nearly half of these volumes were in the Carpathian Basin before 1600. Among the owners of that time, there is a similar number of Transylvanian Saxons and Hungarians from the Partium and Transylvania, the former in slightly larger proportions. Throughout the 17th century, these were the most important groups of owners as well, but now the group of the Transylvanian Reformed Hungarians is the largest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Censorship is a phenomenon that has been present in the history of reading and publishing since books began to consolidate as the preferred format for the transmission of thought. Powers of all kinds, both civil and ecclesiastical, combated any form of deviation or dissent from official doctrines through the prohibition of works and the persecution of authors, printers, booksellers, and publishers. With several centuries of validity, its exercise was an insurmountable and pernicious obstacle in the process of transferring any type of information. When it had seemed to have disappeared thanks to the generalization of human rights, mainly those related to freedom of expression, it has now returned in our days with special virulence in the form of revisions of classic literature according to the patterns of political correctness under the purging, elimination, or prohibition of works in public and school libraries in response to the demands of conservative or extreme right-wing pressure groups. We are at a time when these new forms of censorship, open in some cases and subliminal and subtle in others, threaten to hinder not only the freedom of access to information, but also the cultural memory of the places where they are exercised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Quatorze lições sobre philosophia yogi e occultismo oriental is a yoga book written in Portuguese, signed by Yogi Ramacharaka, published in São Paulo by the Brasil-Psychico-Astrologico publishing house in 1910. However, contrary to what it may seem, it was not written by an Indian guru, nor is it the work of a Brazilian author: it is a translation of Fourteen lessons in yogi philosophy and oriental occultism (1903), by the American writer and editor William Walker Atkinson (1862-1932). The purpose of this article is to understand how his editorial transit from Chicago to São Paulo took place. We defend the hypothesis that this was only possible thanks to the efforts of the Portuguese-Brazilian editor Antônio Olívio Rodrigues (1879-1943), who mediated the authorization, translation, edition and sale of this book in São Paulo's publishing market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents and analyzes the history of Livraria Francesa and Livraria Duas Cidades, two landmark establishments for São Paulo intellectuals in the second half of the 20th century. The first one, founded in 1947 by the French immigrant couple Paul-Jean and Juliette Monteil; the second, erected in 1954 by the Dominican Friar Benevenuto de Santa Cruz. Considering the relevance of bookstores for the history of books in Brazil, we approached the book trade in the city of São Paulo and its intellectual and cultural circuits during the 1950s and 1960s. Then we examine the trajectories of Livraria Francesa and Livraria Duas Cidades during this period, demonstrating how they contributed to the construction of São Paulo culture through the imports of French books and magazines. These publications met the demand of intellectuals and university students, which consolidated the two bookstores as important centers of intellectual formation and sociability in the city of São Paulo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article explores the sources from which Richard Hakluyt assembled his Divers Voyages (1582) and the circumstances of the book's publication. It then places Hakluyt's work in the context of his religious cosmography and his belief that histories of the discovery of the world should be those of eyewitnesses and unmediated, contrary to the practice of certain other cosmographers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The subject of the article is the phenomenon of handwritten notes on the pages of old prints. Due to their astonishing variety, these notes constitute source material with great research potential, well beyond the history of reading and the history of the book as such. Using the previous observations obtained in the autopsy research with the use of the provenance method, the author presents a study of three examples and conclusions regarding the types of writing activity of owners and users of an antique book in the context of their individual approach to the book and reading. The issues were presented based on old prints materials from the collections of the Polish Academy of Sciences of the Gdańsk Library, taking into account the methodological issues related to obtaining provenance information from the collection of old prints, which in the discussed aspect are still insufficiently developed source data resources.

The article presents an interview with historian Roger Chartier, a specialist in the history of books, reading, and publishing. During the interview, Chartier mentions the influence of scholars such as Daniel Roche, Vincenzo Ferrone, Denis Richet, Pierre Bourdieu, and Norbert Elias on his career. The existence of a fourth generation of the Annales, an important historiographical current, is also discussed. The diversity in historiographical proposals from this generation is talked about, as well as the importance of the relationship between knowledge and writing in history. Additionally, the transformation of books with the emergence of digital books and the decrease in the reading of physical books is mentioned, which poses changes in reading practices and the nature of texts. Reflection is also made on current dangers related to the spread of false information on social media, highlighting the importance of maintaining a critical judgment in our cultural practices. [Extracted from the article]

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