Printers’ Devices in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

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Printers’ Devices in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is written by Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 900467960X (ISBN 10) and 9789004679603 (ISBN 13).

This book discusses the printers’ devices used in Poland-Lithuania in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The compositions that served to identify the products of individual printers are explored here as previously unacknowledged research material for cultural studies: they allow for the reconstruction of the mentality of contemporary printers as well as their co-workers and reading public. The book investigates relationships within early modern intellectual communities and shows that the textual and visual discourses of the printers’ devices were pan-European, reflecting the networked communities of European centres of learning and commerce. It documents the broad range of the output of Polish-Lithuanian presses as well and is therefore also a study of book culture in a multinational and multilingual state, whose inheritance is poorly recognised internationally.