Showing papers in "Quaerendo in 2010"
TL;DR: The Dutch conquest of Salvador de Bahia in Brazil in May 1624 constituted the first major defeat for the Habsburg monarchy in the New World as discussed by the authors, and newspapers and publishers did their level best to quickly provide the public with reliable information on events in America.
Abstract: The Dutch conquest of Salvador de Bahia in Brazil in May 1624 constituted the first major defeat for the Habsburg monarchy in the New World When the good news reached the United Provinces in the final week of August, newspapermen and publishers did their level best to quickly provide the public with reliable information on events in America This article discusses their activities until the early days of September, when the victory in Brazil had become common knowledge It demonstrates that even publishers who had anticipated the good news struggled to keep pace with developments, and shows how the authorities attempted to take control of the flow of information In subsequent weeks and months, other publishers also looked to cash in on the widespread enthusiasm over the triumph Thus 1624 became a crucial year for Dutch Americana
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TL;DR: One of the features of the early printed book compared with its manuscript forerunner, the codex, is that all its lines are the same length, giving the text on the page the shape of a perfect rectangle.
Abstract: One of the features of the early printed book compared with its manuscript forerunner, the codex, is that all its lines are the same length, giving the text on the page the shape of a perfect rectangle. Yet in the history of typography that perfection has more than once been eroded. Three factors have been responsible for this: first, the shape and position of a word-break character (the hyphen) at the end of the line; second, the rise of the modern paragraph in the sixteenth century, leading to white space to the right of the last line and also to the left of the first line of a paragraph; and third, the arrival of unjustified typesetting in the second half of the twentieth century.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the Anne Frank Stichting has opened Otto Franks archives to researchers and it has been possible to investigate the publishers archives, the Diarys printing history in the Netherlands, hitherto untold because archive material was either inaccessible or had yet to be discovered.
Abstract: [Anne Frank’s diary is probably the most famous book ever published in Dutch. Since its appearance as Het Achterhuis in 1947 it has been translated into many languages and still sells in vast numbers all over the world. Now that the Anne Frank Stichting has opened Otto Franks archives to researchers and it has been possible to investigate the publishers archives, the Diarys printing history in the Netherlands — hitherto untold because archive material was either inaccessible or had yet to be discovered — is told here for the first time., Anne Frank’s diary is probably the most famous book ever published in Dutch. Since its appearance as Het Achterhuis in 1947 it has been translated into many languages and still sells in vast numbers all over the world. Now that the Anne Frank Stichting has opened Otto Franks archives to researchers and it has been possible to investigate the publishers archives, the Diarys printing history in the Netherlands — hitherto untold because archive material was either inaccessible or had yet to be discovered — is told here for the first time.]
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TL;DR: The remarkable history of the major libraries in North America, their European models and their strong and innovative leadership is reported here in more or less chronological sequence from the earliest efforts to about 1970, when the unprecedented growth came to an end as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: American libraries began to be developed in the middle of the nineteenth century and were among the world’s most prominent a century later. The remarkable history of the major libraries in North America, their European models and their strong and innovative leadership is reported here in more or less chronological sequence from the earliest efforts to about 1970, when the unprecedented growth came to an end. The building of the international library collections could not have been achieved without the enterprising efforts of many booksellers in England and on the European continent. Among those who made significant contributions, were three booksellers from the Netherlands: Frederik Muller, Martinus Nijhoff and Swets & Zeitlinger. This article describes their role, but concentrates on Martinus Nijhoff, publisher and bookseller of The Hague, who had by far the longest successful tenure in supplying American libraries with European books and periodicals. Between 1853 and 1971, three generations of the Nijhoff family – Martinus, Wouter and Wouter Pzn –, with their staff members, built one of the leading international publishing and bookselling houses in the Netherlands. Their legacy is permanently embedded in the collections of the great North American libraries.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an edition of the oldest complete Dutch etching manual, together with a modern English translation, which is based on the work of Schoonebeek (1661-1705).
Abstract: One of the many practitioners of trades and techniques engaged by Tsar Peter the Great during his visit to the Dutch Republic in 1697-8, was the Amsterdam printmaker Adriaan Schoonebeek (1661-1705). Within the framework of this appointment Schoonebeek wrote a concise manual of the technique of etching. This article presents an edition of this oldest complete Dutch etching manual, together with a modern English translation.
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TL;DR: In this article, a critical appraisal of the publishing activities during the Second World War of the renowned publisher A.M. Stols is presented, showing that subsequent statements made by Stols regarding this period cannot all be taken at face value.
Abstract: This article is a critical appraisal of the publishing activities during the Second World War of the renowned publisher A.A.M. Stols. The research presented shows that subsequent statements made by Stols regarding this period cannot all be taken at face value. Despite the commercially fruitful activities that he developed during the occupation of the Netherlands, after the war Stols failed to maintain the position of eminence that he had achieved before it.
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TL;DR: The resistance publishing house De Bezige Bij [The Busy Bee] as discussed by the authors was financed with money earned with broadside verse and other special publications, and there was even enough money left over to pay for large numbers of Jewish children to go into hiding.
Abstract: The Resistance publishing house De Bezige Bij [The Busy Bee] was financed with money earned with broadside verse and other special publications. This was such a lucrative business that there was even enough money left over to pay for large numbers of Jewish children to go into hiding. During the occupation the company built up a reputation as a left-wing publisher ‐ an image that needed to be maintained after the liberation, even though many of the works published by the post-war Bezige Bij were firmly in a different political camp.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of the legislation and regulations to which booksellers, writers and publishers had to adhere in successive phases of the occupation of the Netherlands during the Second World War.
Abstract: During the occupation of the Netherlands in the Second World War, the country’s book industry was subjected to control by a number of official bodies, both German and Dutch, in addition to which the German Sicherheitsdienst (SD) was also prone to interfering with the production and distribution of printed matter. In contrast to the sanctions imposed on the journalistic press, book production was censored preventively by a specially established reading panel called the Lectoraat . In reality, however, at least as effective an instrument of censorship was the government department responsible for allocating paper supplies. The article presents an overview of the legislation and regulations to which booksellers, writers and publishers had to adhere in the successive phases of the occupation.
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