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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Main Author: Proot, Goran (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Florence Firenze University Press 2023
Series:Datini Studies in Economic History 3
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