The Golden Compasses
The History of the House of Plantin-Moretus
Leon Voet
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2008 dbnl / erven Leon Voet
[Deel I]
Preface
List of plates and illustrations
Part I The Plantin-Moretus Dynasty
Chapter 1 Christophe Plantin, a Prince of Printers
Chapter 2 Plantin's Descendants
Chapter 3 Jan I Moretus (1589-1610)
Chapter 4 Balthasar I (1610-1641) and Jan II Moretus (1610-1618)
Chapter 5 Balthasar II Moretus (1641-1674)
Chapter 6 Balthasar III Moretus (1674-1696)
Chapter 7 The later Moretuses
Part II ‘The big house called the Plantin Press’
Chapter 8 The Plantin Houses
Chapter 9 The House in the Vrijdagmarkt
Chapter 10 The Patrician Residence
Chapter 11 The Library
Chapter 12 The Plantin House as a Humanist Centre
Chapter 13 The Plantin House as a Tourist Attraction
Chapter 14 The Plantin-Moretus Museum
Appendixes
Appendix 1 A Tour of the Plantin-Moretus Museum
Appendix 2 Chronological List of the Masters of the Gulden Passer
Appendix 3 Genealogy of the Masters of the Gulden Passer
Appendix 4 Notes on the Genealogy of the Later Moretuses
Appendix 5 The Plantinian Printing Office: Presses in Operation, 1564-1765
Appendix 6 Notes on the Currency and Money Values in the Netherlands in the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries
Bibliography
Index
[Deel II]
Preface
List of Plates and Illustrations
Introductory
Chapter 1 Records and Accounts
The printer's materials
Chapter 2 Paper and Parchment
Chapter 3 Ink
Chapter 4 Type Material
The Printer's Techniques and Methods
Chapter 5 The Printing Shop
Chapter 6 Choice of Type, Format and Size of Edition
Chapter 7 Proof Correction
Chapter 8 Illustration
Chapter 9 Binding
Publishing
Chapter 10 Censorship and Privileges
Chapter 11 Manuscripts and Authors
Chapter 12 Production Times
Working conditions and industrial relations
Chapter 13 The Printing Press and its Staff
Chapter 14 An Unruly Republic
Sales and finances
Chapter 15 Costing
Chapter 16 Sales
Chapter 17 Computations and Payments
Chapter 18 Loans
Chapter 19 Difficulties of the Business
Appendixes
Appendix 1 Balance-sheet of the Firm's Activities in the Year 1566
Appendix 2 Books Bought and Sold in the Year 1566
Appendix 3 Books Bought and Sold in the Year 1609
Appendix 4 Books Bought and Sold in the Year 1650
Appendix 5 The Frankfurt Book Fairs Lent Fair 1579
Appendix 6 The Frankfurt Fairs Lent & September 1609
Appendix 7 Sales Figures for Some Publications of Plantin
Appendix 8 Impositions and Folding Schemes
Appendix 9 Additional Notes to Volume I
Bibliography
Index
Short Title List of Plantinian and Officina Publications and Impressions
