A satyr as bookseller, 1655
Maire, J. (drukker/printer)
year: 1655
type: titelblad
title page
detail: nee
dimensions: 10,7 x 6,7 cm.
related terms: ambulante boekhandelaars titelprenten bloemlezingen
period: 17e eeuw
classification:
G: Boekhandel en uitgeverij
contents: 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.
origineel:
source: Elegantiores praestantium virorum Satyrae. - Leiden: J. Maire, 1655, titelprent
available in: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag 183 O 22
©description: Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek
©reproduction: Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek
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