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Book number: 78528

Populair drukwerk in de Gouden Eeuw: De almanak als lectuur en handelswaar.

Salman, Jeroen

Walburg Pers, Zutphen, 1999

ISBN: 9789057300561

€ 27,00

25 x 17.5 cm, hardcover with dust jacket. 496 pages, illustrated. Text in Dutch. Small signs of use, top edge with some brown spots, although still very good. See picture.

Comprehensive study on the role of almanacs as popular reading material and commercial products in the Dutch Golden Age, focusing on their production, distribution, and cultural impact in 17th-century Dutch society. Includes a CD-ROM with a descriptive bibliography of North Dutch almanacs from 1570 to 1705. Published as part of the series Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse boekhandel, Nieuwe Reeks III.