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This book traces the pictorial and ideological traditions behind printers’ devices, placing the usage of these unassuming compositions in the broader cultural context early modern Poland-Lithuania: a multinational, multiethnic, and multilingual state with its rich and heterogeneous book culture.
“One of the most influential early modern book history series currently available.” Alexander S. Wilkinson, University College Dublin. In: SHARP News, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Autumn 2014), p. 10. “One of the most outstanding series in the field of European book history.” Mart van Duijn, Leiden University Libraries. In: Quaerendo, Vol. 44, No. 3 (2014).
Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba, Ph.D (2005), the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, is professor at that university. She has published on history of literature, book history, emblematics, and the history of ideas and edited extensive sixteenth-century texts.