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Title

 A satyr as bookseller, 1655


Creator

 Maire, J. (drukker/printer)


Year

 1655


Type

 titelblad, title page


Measurements

 10,7 x 6,7 cm.


Related term

 ambulante boekhandelaars, titelprenten, bloemlezingen


Period

 17e eeuw


Classification

 G: Boekhandel en uitgeverij


Content

 In addition to books in bookshops, books were also sold by pedlars and hawkers. Their wares consisted of small printed matter, such as pamphlets, songbooks, almanacs, etc., which they carried along in a basket hung with a cord around their necks or around their middles. On this frontispiece a satyr is represented as pedlar/ bookseller. The book contains an anthology of `elegant satires' by `eminent men': well-known authors such as Justus Lipsius, the Emperor Justinian, Seneca, Petrus Nannius and others.


Original

 Elegantiores praestantium virorum Satyrae. - Leiden: J. Maire, 1655, titelprent


available in

 Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag 183 O 22


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 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek


@reproduction

 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek