Recent Books
- Recent Books
Germany
Papers from a conference held at the École des chartes in 2008. Includes: Otto S. Lankhorst, 'Les catalogues du "magasin de l'univers": Intérêt et sauvegarde des catalogues de libraires néerlandais de l'Ancien Régime'; Christian Péligry, 'Le commerce des livres à la foire Saint-Germain (vers 1639-1660)'; Claire Lesage, 'Les libraires catalogueurs: renseigner et décrire, attirer et vanter'; Vladimir Somov, 'Pierre François Fauche, l'imprimeur-libraire européen et ses catalogues'; Virginie Meyer, 'La maison Charpentier de 1875 à 1896: D'un catalogue à l'autre'; Véronique Sarrazin, 'L'affichage des ix et la promotion des livres dans les annonces de librairie au xviiie siècle'; Maria Gioia Tavoni, 'Les accroches commerciales dans les catalogues de libraires italiens du XVIIIe siècle'; Jean-Daniel Candaux, 'Le premier âge d'or du prospectus'; Anita van Elferen, 'Henry George Bohn et son Guinea Catalogue de 1841: Une première approche'; Giles Mandelbrote, 'Les catalogues de libraires dans les collections de Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753): Provenance et transmission'; Catherine Faivre d'Arcier, 'Lovenjoul et ses catalogues: Au coeur d'un service de commissions'.
Manchester
Julianne Simpson
Michael Pegg, sometime librarian of the John Rylands University Library at Manchester, devoted over thirty years to cataloguing the thousands of German Reformation pamphlets survivng in European libraries. This volume, the final fruit of his labours, posthumously published, covers collections in France and, even more usefully, provides a comprehensive index to all his previous catalogues (vols 45, 66, 99, 122, 150, 173, 180, 200, 201, and 206 in the same series). The volume also includes an appreciation of Pegg's work by Helmut Claus.
The third and final volume of Bodo Gotzkowsky's conspectus of the woodcuts — 1239 in all — produced by the German artist Hans Brosamer (c. 1500-c. 1554). (For a review of the first two volumes, published as vols 361 and 363 in the same series in 2002 and 2009 respectively, see The Library, VII, 11 (2010), pp. 475-77.) The present volume focuses on scattered woodcuts in books printed at Marburg, Leipzig, and Nuremberg between 1527 and 1551; a substantial number of impressive illustrations in various scientific and humanistic books published by Peter Apian at Ingolstadt [End Page 356] during the years 1532-1540, which show Brosamer's abilities as a highly skilled technical draughtsman; various illustrations for books published at Erfurt between 1534 and 1546; and large numbers of woodcuts for books published by Hermann Gülfferich at Frankfurt, including more than 100 for the 1549 Till Eulenspiegel, 114 for Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff (1553) and some for Johannes Pauli's Schimpff und Ernst (1555). There are three useful appendices, the first showing the chronological sequence in which the woodcuts dealt with in this volume were employed; the second brings addenda to the woodcuts Gotzkowsky had discussed in the previous two volumes; and the third provides comprehensive indexes to all three volumes. All told, Gotzkowsky has provided an important survey of the work of a very productive but unjustifiably neglected illustrator.
London
John L. Flood [End Page 357]
