Advertising the Early Printed Book

The culmination of three decades of research by one of Europe’s most renowned book historians, Advertising the Early Printed Book is the necessary first resource for scholars investigating the marketing methods of publishers and booksellers in the first 150 years of printing in the West. The Census provides bibliographical descriptions of over 250 advertisements and catalogues, some not previously recorded, some no longer extant, with transcriptions of their promotional text, references to modern editions, facsimiles, and scholarship, and whenever possible notes on the provenance and condition of surviving copies.

Christian Coppens earned his PhD from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, served as Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts in that university’s Central Library, and now is Emeritus Professor in its Faculty of Arts. He is the author or co-author of over 300 publications in the fields of bibliography and book history.J. Christopher Warner, PhD University of Washington, is professor of English at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, with a book forthcoming on the career and press output of the Elizabethan printer-in-exile, John Fowler.