This account uncovers for the first time a largely overlooked marvel of the Dutch Golden Age: books. Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen show how the Dutch reshaped the seventeenth-century book world and, in the process, bought and owned more books per capita than any other people in Europe.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 09/29/2020
ISBN: 9780300254792
Pages: 496
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.50d