Article: 'Getruckt zu Augspurg': Buchdruck und Buchhandel in Augsburg zwischen 1468 und 1555.(Review)

'Getruckt zu Augspurg': Buchdruck und Buchhandel in Augsburg zwischen 1468 und 1555. By HANS-JORG KUNAST. (Studia Augusta, 8) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 1997. x + 373 pp. DM 142.

Considering that the role of Augsburg as one of the most important centres of the German publishing industry in the early modern period has never been doubted, it is surprising to realize that this book is the first detailed and comprehensive study of the early book trade in the city since Georg Wilhelm Zapf's Annales typographicae Augustanae ab eius origine MCCCCLXVI usque ad annum MDXXX in 1778. Hans-Jorg Kunast's review of previous research reveals how incomplete the picture we have been given ...

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