Preface

Contents

Introductions

The Bookshop of the World: Books and their makers as agents of cultural exchange

Lotte Hellinga

The fortunes and misfortunes of book publishing in Flanders

Ludo Simons

The Early Period

Boethius's Consolatio Pilosophiae and the early printing tradition

Mariken Goris

Flemish-English cultural connections: William Caxton and his cultural revolution

Sorin Ciutacu

Mariken van Nieumeghen and Mary of Nemmegen: A hopeless case?

Riccardo Rizza

A bookshop for a new age: The inventory of the bookshop of the Louvain bookseller Hieronymus Cloet, 1543

Pierre Delsaerdt

The Golden Age: Wars and more peaceful aspects

The English book in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic

Paul G. Hoftijzer

Anglo-Dutch publishing during the eighty years' war (1568-1648)

Hugh Dunthorne

Editing, printing publishing and selling the life and death of Lady Jane Grey in 1607

Karel Bostoen

The Elzeviers and England

Frans Korsten

London, Antwerp and Amsterdam: Journalistic relations in the first half of the seventeenth century

Paul Arblaster

The exile experience: Royalist and Anglican book culture in the Low Countries (1640-60)

Marika Keblusek

Crispijn de Passe: His books and prints for the English market

Ilja M. Veldman

Thomas Jenner: English emblems and their models from the Low Countries

John H. Astington

'Return my woodblocks at once': Dealings between the Antwerp publisher Balthasar Moretus and the London bookseller Richard Hitacker in the seventeenth century

Dirk Imhof

Representations of Europe in cartography and iconography from the Low Countries

Michael Tintle

Dutch medical authors and their publishing history

Dr James's legacy: Dutch printing and the history of medicine

Vivian Nutton

The impact of Dutch medical authors in German translation (1680-1720)

Annette Munt

Towards the Modern Period

The publishing of forbidden philosophical works in the Dutch Republic (1666-1710) and their European distribution

Jonathan Israel

Credit, cash and customers: Cornelius Crownfield and Anglo-Dutch trade in the early eighteenth century

David McKitterick

Book sale catalogues in the Dutch Republic, 1599-1800

B.P.M. Dongelmans

Internationalism and nationalism in the book-trade

Buying books by mail order: A Swedish customer and Dutch booksellers in the eighteenth century

Tomas Anfält

B.S. Nayler and the emergence of the remainder trade

Lisa Kuiters

The widening circle: Contacts between Dutch and English publishers and booksellers in the second half of the nineteenth century

B.P.M. Dongelmans

The patriotic reaction in 1940-41 in the Netherlands and France: a comparative analysis

Dick van Galen Last

List of illustrations

List of contributors

Index