Publishing in the Republic of Letters
Subtitle: The Ménage-Grævius-Wetstein Correspondence 1679-1692 (Studies in the History in the Low Countries 6)
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: January 10, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9789042016859
Subjects: Publishing industry; c 1600 to c 1700; Philosophy; Netherlands; History & Surveys - 17th/18th Century; Movements - Humanism; History & Surveys - General
First sentence: In the early summer of 1692 the seventy-nine year old Gilles Menage, one of the most celebrated scholars in Europe, recounted to an admiring audience the adventurous printing history of his greatest work of classical erudition.