Lost books : reconstructing the print world of pre-industrial Europe / edited by Flavia Bruni, Andrew Pettegree.

Includes bibliographical references.

The legion of the lost : recovering the lost books of early modern Europe / Andrew Pettegree -- Part I. In the beginning : lost incunabula -- The Gutenberg Galaxy's dark matter : lost incunabula, and ways to retrieve them / Falk Eisermann -- Lost incunable editions : closing in on an estimate / Jonathan Green and Frank Mcintyre -- Part II. National case-studies -- Lost books of polyphony from Renaissance Spain / Jain Fenlon -- Lost books, lost libraries, lost everything? : a Scandinavian early modern perspective / Wolfgang Undorf -- In search of lost Fortuna : reconstructing the publishing history of the Polish book of fortune-telling / Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba -- Lost print in England : entries in the Stationers' Company register, 1557-1640 / Alexandra Hill -- Survival factors of seventeenth-century hand-press books published in the southern Netherlands : the importance of sheet counts, Sammelbände and the role of institutional collections / Goran Proot -- Publicity and its uses : lost books as revealed in newspaper advertisements in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic / Arthur der Weduwen and Andrew Pettegree -- Lost books and dispersed libraries in Sicily during the seventeenth century / Domenico Ciccarello -- Part III. Censorship and its consequences -- Lost issues and self-censorship : rethinking the publishing history of Guillaume Budé's De l'institution du prince / Christine Benevent and Malcolm Walsry -- The editorial history of a rare and forbidden Franciscan book of the Italian Renaissance : the Dialoga della unione spirituale di Dio con l'anima by Bartolomeo Cardoni / Michele Camaioni -- An unknown best-seller : the Confessionario of Girolamo da Palermo / Rosa Marisa Borraccini -- The devil's trick : impossible editions in the lists of titles from the regular orders in Italy at the end of the sixteenth century / Roberto Rusconi -- On the track of lost editions in Italian religious libraries at the end of the sixteenth century : a numerical analysis of the RICI database / Giovanna Granata -- Part IV. Libraries, private and public -- Loss and meaning : lost books, bibliographic description and significance in a sixteenth-century Italian private library / Anna Giulia Cavagna -- Confiscated manuscripts and books : what happened to the personal library and archive of Hugo Grotius following his arrest on charges of high treason in August 1618? / Martine Julia van Ittersum -- Dispersed collections of scientific books : the case of the private library of Federico Cesi (1585-1630) / Maria Teresa Biagetti -- Lost in plain sight : rediscovering the library of Sir Hans Sloane / Alison Walker -- Book use and sociability in lost libraries of the eighteenth century : towards a union catalogue / Mark Towsey -- Part V. War and peace : the depredations of modem times -- Lost books of 'Operation Gomorrah' : rescue, reconstruction, and restitution at Hamburg's library in the Second World War / Jan L. Alessandrini -- Two centuries of looting and the grand Nazi book burning : the dispersed and destroyed libraries of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth : historical losses and contemporary attempts at reconstruction / Tomasz Nastulczyk -- All is not lost : Italian archives and libraries in the Second World War / Flavia Bruni -- Tracing lost broadsheet ordinances printed in sixteenth-century Cologne / Saskia Limbach.

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Questions of survival and loss bedevil the study of early printed books. Many early publications are not particularly rare, but others have disappeared altogether. This is clear not only from the improbably large number of books that survive in only one copy, but from many references in contemporary documents to books that cannot now be located. In this volume leading specialists in the field explore different aspects of this poorly understood aspect of book history: classes of texts particularly impacted by poor rates of survival; lost books revealed in contemporary lists or inventories; the collections of now dispersed libraries; deliberate and accidental destruction. A final section describes modern efforts at salvage and restitution following the devastation of the twentieth century.

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