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Call for papers by Andrew Pettegree

Research paper thumbnail of Call for papers, Book Disciplne Group, RSA Chicago, 30 March - 1 April 2017

Monographs by Andrew Pettegree

Research paper thumbnail of Brand Luther. 1517, Printing and the Making of the Reformation

Research paper thumbnail of The Invention of News. How the World Came to Know about itself

Research paper thumbnail of The Book in the Renaissance

Research paper thumbnail of Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion

Journal Articles and Chapters in Edited Volumes by Andrew Pettegree

Research paper thumbnail of Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen, What was published in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic?, Livre. Revue Historique (2018), pp. 1-27

The seventeenth-century Dutch Republic was a highly literate society. The Dutch produced, and co... more The seventeenth-century Dutch Republic was a highly literate society. The Dutch produced, and consumed, more printed items per head than any other people in Europe. Books were imported from all the major European centres of production, and exported to markets the Dutch soon came to dominate. In the seventeenth century Amsterdam was already ‘the bookshop of the world’. Yet there has never previously been an attempt to estimate the full extent of print production undertaken by the Dutch printing industry. Building on the foundations of the Short Title Catalogue Netherlands (STCN), we undertake such a systematic evaluation here, beginning with classes of print excluded from the terms of reference of the STCN, such as broadsheets, newspapers and printed diplomatic despatches. We then assess how many books will be located in libraries abroad not included in the STCN survey. In a methodological innovation, we also attempt to reconstruct the population of books known to have been printed, but not found in libraries today: ‘lost books’ identified in auction catalogues, publishers’ stock catalogues and newspaper advertisements. Finally we integrate information from archival resources, which helps us offer a survey of the total output of two genres of print extremely susceptible to loss, government ordinances and printing for universities. In total, we postulate that, at a conservative estimate, Dutch printing houses published at least 357,500 editions: over five times the number registered in the STCN. This higher figure should be the starting point for any attempt to examine the economic structures of the print trade, and the impact of print on Dutch society.

Research paper thumbnail of Publicity and Its Uses. Lost Books as Revealed in Newspaper Advertisements in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic, with Andrew Pettegree, in Flavia Bruni and Andrew Pettegree (eds.), Lost Books. Reconstructing the Print World of Pre-Industrial Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 202-222.

Papers by Andrew Pettegree

Research paper thumbnail of The Dutch Reformation and the Beginnings of the Exile Movement

Emden and the Dutch Revolt, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of A. G. Dickens and his critics: a new narrative of the English Reformation

Historical Research, 2004

Books by Andrew Pettegree

Research paper thumbnail of Andrew Pettegree, Broadsheets: Single-Sheet Publishing in the First Age of Print (Leiden: Brill, 2017)

This volume offers an expansive survey of the role of single-sheet publishing in the European pri... more This volume offers an expansive survey of the role of single-sheet publishing in the European print industry during the first two centuries after the invention of printing. Drawing on new materials made available during the compilation of the Universal Short Title Catalogue, the twenty contributors explore the extraordinary range of broadsheet publishing and its contribution to government, pedagogy, religious devotion and entertainment culture. Long disregarded as ephemera or cheap print, broadsheets emerge both as a crucial communication medium and an essential underpinning of the economics of the publishing industry.

Research paper thumbnail of Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen, What was published in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic?, Livre. Revue Historique (2018), pp. 1-27

The seventeenth-century Dutch Republic was a highly literate society. The Dutch produced, and co... more The seventeenth-century Dutch Republic was a highly literate society. The Dutch produced, and consumed, more printed items per head than any other people in Europe. Books were imported from all the major European centres of production, and exported to markets the Dutch soon came to dominate. In the seventeenth century Amsterdam was already ‘the bookshop of the world’. Yet there has never previously been an attempt to estimate the full extent of print production undertaken by the Dutch printing industry. Building on the foundations of the Short Title Catalogue Netherlands (STCN), we undertake such a systematic evaluation here, beginning with classes of print excluded from the terms of reference of the STCN, such as broadsheets, newspapers and printed diplomatic despatches. We then assess how many books will be located in libraries abroad not included in the STCN survey. In a methodological innovation, we also attempt to reconstruct the population of books known to have been printed, but not found in libraries today: ‘lost books’ identified in auction catalogues, publishers’ stock catalogues and newspaper advertisements. Finally we integrate information from archival resources, which helps us offer a survey of the total output of two genres of print extremely susceptible to loss, government ordinances and printing for universities. In total, we postulate that, at a conservative estimate, Dutch printing houses published at least 357,500 editions: over five times the number registered in the STCN. This higher figure should be the starting point for any attempt to examine the economic structures of the print trade, and the impact of print on Dutch society.

Research paper thumbnail of Publicity and Its Uses. Lost Books as Revealed in Newspaper Advertisements in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic, with Andrew Pettegree, in Flavia Bruni and Andrew Pettegree (eds.), Lost Books. Reconstructing the Print World of Pre-Industrial Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 202-222.

Research paper thumbnail of The Dutch Reformation and the Beginnings of the Exile Movement

Emden and the Dutch Revolt, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of A. G. Dickens and his critics: a new narrative of the English Reformation

Historical Research, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of Andrew Pettegree, Broadsheets: Single-Sheet Publishing in the First Age of Print (Leiden: Brill, 2017)

This volume offers an expansive survey of the role of single-sheet publishing in the European pri... more This volume offers an expansive survey of the role of single-sheet publishing in the European print industry during the first two centuries after the invention of printing. Drawing on new materials made available during the compilation of the Universal Short Title Catalogue, the twenty contributors explore the extraordinary range of broadsheet publishing and its contribution to government, pedagogy, religious devotion and entertainment culture. Long disregarded as ephemera or cheap print, broadsheets emerge both as a crucial communication medium and an essential underpinning of the economics of the publishing industry.