Chapter The economic revolution in book design that went unnoticed. The case of the Southern Netherlands, 1473–c. 1550
This contribution discusses the evolution of paper thickness of books produced in the Southern Netherlands in the period 1473 until the middle of the sixteenth century. Changing paper thickness is one of the key elements which in all likelihood helped coping with the problem of the rapidly increasin...
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| description | This contribution discusses the evolution of paper thickness of books produced in the Southern Netherlands in the period 1473 until the middle of the sixteenth century. Changing paper thickness is one of the key elements which in all likelihood helped coping with the problem of the rapidly increasing demand for paper by the press. After a description of relevant aspects of the production of hand laid paper and of the resulting morphology of sheets, a methodology is proposed to deal with the problem of establishing paper thickness in bound volumes and further problems dealing with the compression effect and of binding and rebinding are discussed. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1120682025-01-21T23:35:39Z Chapter The economic revolution in book design that went unnoticed. The case of the Southern Netherlands, 1473–c. 1550 Proot, Goran Hand laid paper paper thickness hand press books early modern period thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology This contribution discusses the evolution of paper thickness of books produced in the Southern Netherlands in the period 1473 until the middle of the sixteenth century. Changing paper thickness is one of the key elements which in all likelihood helped coping with the problem of the rapidly increasing demand for paper by the press. After a description of relevant aspects of the production of hand laid paper and of the resulting morphology of sheets, a methodology is proposed to deal with the problem of establishing paper thickness in bound volumes and further problems dealing with the compression effect and of binding and rebinding are discussed. 2023-08-08T04:58:51Z 2023-08-08T04:58:51Z 2023-08-03T15:03:04Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20230803_9791221500929_25 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/74829 9791221500929 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/112068 eng Datini Studies in Economic History open access image/png image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/74829/1/9791221500929-17.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/74829/1/9791221500929-17.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0092-9.17 10.36253/979-12-215-0092-9.17 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a L’economia della conoscenza: innovazione, produttività e crescita economica nei secoli XIII-XVIII / The knowledge economy: innovation, productivity and economic growth, 13th to 18th century 9791221500929 28 Florence open access |
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| title | Chapter The economic revolution in book design that went unnoticed. The case of the Southern Netherlands, 1473–c. 1550 |
| title_full | Chapter The economic revolution in book design that went unnoticed. The case of the Southern Netherlands, 1473–c. 1550 |
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| title_short | Chapter The economic revolution in book design that went unnoticed. The case of the Southern Netherlands, 1473–c. 1550 |
| title_sort | chapter the economic revolution in book design that went unnoticed the case of the southern netherlands 1473 c 1550 |
| topic | Hand laid paper paper thickness hand press books early modern period thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology |
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