Broadsheets : single-sheet publishing in the first age of print / edited by Andrew Pettegree.

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, [2017]

xxi, 527 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm.

Part 1. Introduction -- Broadsheets : single-sheet publishing in the first age of print : typology and typography / Andrew Pettegree -- Early modern broadsheets between archives and libraries : toward a possible integration / Flavia Bruni -- Part 2. Surveys -- A survey of printed Spanish broadsheets, 1472-1700 / Alexander S. Wilkinson, Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo and Alba de la Cruz -- Fifty thousand Veronicas : print runs of broadsheets in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries / Falk Eisermann -- Reconstructing broadsheet production in Reformation Wittenberg / Drew Thomas -- Part 3. Official print -- In the name of God : governance, public order and theocracy in the broadsheets of the Stamperia Camerale of Rome / Flavia Bruni -- Bread and fairs : broadsheet printing for the municipality of Lyon, 1497-1570 / Jamie Cumby -- Collections of Italian broadsheets in French libraries / Shanti Graheli -- Commerce and good governance : the broadsheet ordinances in the Van der Meulen Archive / Nina Lamal -- "Everyone has hereby been warned" : the structure and typography of broadsheet ordinances and the communication of governance in the early seventeenth-century Dutch Republic / Arthur der Weduwen -- Part 4. Politics -- Broadsheets testing moderation in the nascent Dutch revolt / Johan Verberckmoes and Violet Soen -- The king is dead : German broadsheets printed on the death of Gustavus Adolphus and Charles I / Jan Hillgaertner -- Johann Georg Schleder (1597-1685) : journalist, chronicler, and broadsheet author / John Roger Paas -- Part 5. Broadsheets in the academic world -- Function in form : single-sheet items and the utility of cheap print in the early modern German university / Richard Kirwan -- Cheap print and the academic market : the printing of dissertations in sixteenth-century Louvain / Malcolm Walsby -- Advertising medical studies in sixteenth-century Basel : function and use of academic disputations / Saskia Limbach -- Part 6. Broadsheets in the marketplace -- German music broadsheets, 1500 to 1550 : production, persuasion and performance / Amelie Roper -- The lamentable tale of lost ballads in England, 1557-1640 / Alexandra Hill -- Witchcraft illustrated : the crime of witchcraft in early modern German news broadsheets / Abaigeal Warfield -- Selling books by broadsheet : the sales catalogue of Marie du Flo, veuve de Charles Savreux, Marchand-Libraire / Graeme Kemp.

Includes bibliographical references and index.