Proeve der Drukkeryen. Type assortment in fourteen Leiden printing offices in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

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Dros, Erik Jan (2020)

Proeve der Drukkeryen. Type assortment in fourteen Leiden printing offices in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Master thesis | Media Studies (MA)

Just as many other towns in the Dutch Republic, Leiden had a flourishing book industry during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Of a few of the Leiden printers, active in these centuries, inventories of their printing offices have survived, mainly as notarial documents. In this thesis, the different type faces and sizes of fourteen Leiden printing offices in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are analysed to give a better view of the Leiden book industry in this time.

Author: Dros, Erik Jan

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation: Book and Digital Media Studies

Supervisors: Hoftijzer, Paul

ECTS Credits: 20

Language: en

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Proeve der Drukkeryen. Type assortment in fourteen Leiden printing offices in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries