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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451774703321

Autore

Maber Richard G

Titolo

Publishing in the Republic of Letters [[electronic resource] ] : the Ménage-Graevius-Wetstein correspondence, 1679-1692 / / Richard G. Maber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; New York, N.Y., : Rodopi, 2005

ISBN

94-012-0153-6

1-4175-9205-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Collana

Studies in the history of ideas in the Low Countries

Disciplina

070.509492

Soggetti

Authors and publishers - Europe

Authors and publishers - France - History - 17th century

Authors and publishers - Netherlands - History - 17th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-165) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Description of the manuscripts; Editorial principles; Table of the letters; The Ménage - Grævius - Wetstein correspondence; Plate Section; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book prints for the first time two remarkable interlocking sequences of letters between Paris and the Netherlands: 40 letters from Gilles Ménage in Paris to Johann-Georg Grævius in Utrecht, and 30 from the printer Henrik Wetstein, in Amsterdam, to Ménage. Their principal focus is the publication of a considerable number of Ménage's works outside France, above all his monumental edition of Diogenes Laertius's Lives of the Philosophers. The letters give an engaging picture of mutual help within the community of scholars, Dutch, German, English, and French, including Huguenot exiles like Le