From Press to Readers. Studies in the Materiality of Print Culture

The seven articles in this volume, written by French and German specialists in book history, address various aspects of the materiality of print culture, examining both the processes of book production and the paths of book circulation. They explore notions of composition, collection and circulation of texts and images, from manuscript to books designed for specific readers. They are based on a variety of sources from archive documents to the study of specific manuscript or printed copies.
The perspective is transnational, taking at Gutenberg's Europe as a space for the circulation of print, and concerns early modernity, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries.

Sept spécialistes français et allemands de l'histoire du livre éclairent dans ce recueil divers aspects de la matérialité de la culture de l'imprimé. En envisageant les processus de fabrication et de circulation des livres à partir de sources variées (documents d'archives, inventaires, catalogues, collections de bibliophiles, exemplaires particuliers), ils explorent les notions de composition, de collection, de réception, ainsi que les spécificités des formes manuscrite et imprimée.
La perspective transnationale envisage l'Europe de Gutenberg comme espace de circulation de l'imprimé et porte sur la première modernité (XVe-XVIIIe siècles). Les contributions sont en anglais.