Popular Print under the Press: Strategies, Practices and Materials.
Mistakes, printing defects, reused woodcuts and low-quality paper are often the result of strategies enabled by printers and publishers to offer printed material at a low price while balancing profit/loss in their daily activities. It was precisely due to these strategies that a wider class of popul...
| Publicado en: | Quaerendo Vol. 51; no. 1/2; pp. 8 - 36 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2021
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