Forms, handbills and affixed posters : surveying the ephemeral print production of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic
Abstract
In 2018, we published an article that provided a first attempt to survey the whole output of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Our estimate was a minimum of 357,500 editions. This calculation did not yet include the world of ephemeral forms, handbills and posters. The survival of such commercial or private notices is microscopically small, compared to what must have been produced. It is nevertheless vital for our understanding of the print trade that we attempt to capture the complexities of this lost world: this was work that sustained printshops. It was also the form which most acutely influenced commerce, government and social life. Here we wish to offer an introduction to this most elusive genre of the early modern print world, document the myriad ways in which print infiltrated the daily life of people, and offer some hypotheses on the likely total output of certain forms of ephemeral print.
Citation
Pettegree , A & der Weduwen , A T 2020 , ' Forms, handbills and affixed posters : surveying the ephemeral print production of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic ' , Quaerendo , vol. 50 , no. 1-2 , pp. 15-40 . https://doi.org/10.1163/15700690-12341464
Publication
Quaerendo
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0014-9527Type
Journal article
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