Lost Books

Flavia Bruni is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Rome La Sapienza and a Honorary Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews. She is responsible for the survey of seventeenth-century Italian editions for the Universal Short Title Catalogue and currently working on her second monograph on censorship in Counter-Reformation Italy (forthcoming).Andrew Pettegree is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue. He is the author of over a dozen books in the fields of Reformation history and the history of communication. His new projects include a study of Newspaper Advertising in the Low Countries and ‘Preserving the World’s Rarest Books’, a collaborative project with libraries funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

“This is a rewarding and important book”.David McKitterick, Trinity College, Cambridge. In: Library & Information History, Vol. 33, No. 2 (2017), pp. 145-146.“Pettegree’s introduction, ‘The Legion of the Lost’ is a full-length essay discussing not only how books become lost but how one can know about what has been lost. It is accessible and engaging and would be a worthy reading assignment for undergraduates or masters students studying book history.”Iona Hine, The University of Sheffield. Reviewed for Linguistic DNA [10 January 2017].

• 1. Andrew Pettegree, The Legion of the Lost. Recovering the Lost Books of Early Modern Europe.Part I: In the Beginning: lost incunabula2. Falk Eisermann, The Gutenberg Galaxy’s Dark Matter: Lost Incunabula, and Ways to Retrieve Them3. Jonathan Green and Frank McIntyre, Lost Incunable Editions: Closing In on an EstimatePart II: National Case-studies4. Iain Fenlon, Lost Book of Polyphony from Renaissance Spain5. Wolfgang Undorf, Lost Books, Lost Libraries, Lost Everything? A Scandinavian Early Modern Perspective6. Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba, In Search of Lost Fortuna. Reconstructing the Publishing History of the Polish Book of Fortune-Telling7. Alexandra Hill, Lost Print in England: Entries in the Stationers’ Company Register, 1557-16408. Goran Proot, Survival factors of seventeenth-century hand-press books published in the Southern Netherlands: The importance of sheet counts, Sammelbände and the role of institutional collections9. Arthur der Weduwen and Andrew Pettegree, Publicity and its Uses. Lost Books as Revealed in Newspaper Advertisements in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic10. Domenico Ciccarello, Lost Books and Dispersed Libraries in Sicily during the Seventeenth CenturyPart III: Censorship and its consequences11. Christine Benevent and Malcolm Walsby, Lost Issues and Self-Censorship: Rethinking the Publishing History of Guillaume Budé’s De l’Institution du Prince12. Michele Camaioni, The Editorial History of a Rare and Forbidden Franciscan Book of Italian Renaissance: the Dialogo della Unione Spirituale di Dio con l’anima by Bartolomeo Cordoni13. Rosa Marisa Borraccini, An Unknown Bestseller: the Confessionario of Girolamo da Palermo14. Roberto Rusconi, The Devil’s Trick. Impossible Editions in the Lists of Titles from the Regular Orders in Italy at the End of the Sixteenth Century15. Giovanna Granata, On the Track of Lost Editions in Italian Religious Libraries at the End of the Sixteenth Century: a Numerical Analysis of the RICI DatabasePart IV. Libraries, private and public16. Anna Giulia Cavagna, Loss and Meaning. Lost Books, Bibliographic Description and Significance in a Sixteenth-Century Italian Private Library17. Martine van Ittersum, 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?18. Maria Teresa Biagetti, Dispersed collections of scientific books: the case of the private library of Federico Cesi (1585-1630)19. Alison Walker, Lost in Plain Sight: Rediscovering the Library of Sir Hans Sloane20. Mark Towsey, Book Use and Sociability in Lost Libraries of the Eighteenth Century: Towards a Union CataloguePart V: War and Peace: the depredations of modern times21. Jan L. Alessandrini, Lost Books of ‘Operation Gomorrah’: Rescue, Reconstruction, and Restitution at Hamburg’s Library in the Second World War22. Tomasz Nastulczyk, 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 Reconstruction23. Flavia Bruni, All is not Lost. Italian Archives and Libraries in the Second World War24. Saskia Limbach, Tracing Lost Broadsheet Ordinances Printed in Sixteenth-Century CologneIndex