Books and their makers during the Middle Ages

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1410213390
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1410213396
• Author:  George Haven Putnam

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. George Haven Putnam (1844-1930) was the son of G. P. Putnam. He served in the Civil War until he was captured by the Confederates in 1864; he retired with the rank of major. On his father’s death he became head of G. P. Putnam’s Sons. Major Putnam was active in many civic and social causes. He organized the American Publishers’ Copyright League in 1887 and led the successful battle for passage of an international copyright law in 1891. He is also the author of Authors and Their Public in Ancient Times and Memories of a Publisher 1865-1915.

Table of contents:

1. THE EARLY PRINTERPUBLISHERS OF FRANCE 14581559
2. THE KOBERGERS OF NUREMBERG
3. FROBEN OF BASEL 14601528
4. ERASMUS AND HIS BOOKS 14671536
5. LUTHER AS AN AUTHOR 14831546
6. THE ELZEVIRS OF LEYDEN AND AMSTERDAM 15871688
7. THE BEGINNINGS OF PROPERTY
8. REGULATIONS FOR THE CONTROL AND THE CENSORSHIP
9. THE BEGINNINGS OF LITERARY PROPERTY IN ENGLAND
10. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPTION OF LITERARY

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