Books in the Netherlands
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File:Boekhandel Stumpel.jpg, circa 1910]]
File:Johannes Jelgerhuis - De winkel van boekhandelaar Pieter Meijer Warnars op de Vijgendam te Amsterdam.jpg{{citation |title=Alphabetische naamlijst van boeken |quote=Welke sedert het jaar 1790...1831, in Noord-Nederland zijn uitgekomen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ya8-AQAAMAAJ |language=nl |publisher=Gebroeders van Cleef |year=1832 }}]]
As of 2018, Wolters Kluwer ranks as the Dutch biggest publisher of books in terms of revenue.{{citation |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20180917/78036-pearson-is-still-the-world-s-largest-publisher.html |title= The World's 54 Largest Publishers, 2018 |date= 14 September 2018 |work=Publishers Weekly |location=US |volume=265 |number= 38 }}{{citation |work=Publishers Weekly |location=US |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/international/international-book-news/article/74505-the-world-s-50-largest-publishers-2017.html |title=World's 54 Largest Publishers, 2017 |date= 25 August 2017}}{{citation |work=Publishers Weekly |location=US |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/international/international-book-news/article/71268-the-world-s-52-largest-book-publishers-2016.html |title=World's 52 Largest Book Publishers, 2016 |date= 26 August 2016}} Other notable Dutch houses include Brill (est. 1683) and Elsevier (est. 1880).{{cite book|editor1=Euromedia Research Group |editor2=Mary Kelly|display-editors=et al |title= Media in Europe |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=_KRfXsBUBeAC |publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=978-0-7619-4132-3 |edition=3rd |year=2004 |chapter= Netherlands: Book Publishing }}
History
{{see also|Global spread of the printing press#Netherlands}}
Printed books first appeared in the 1470s in places such as Delft, Deventer, Gouda, Nijmegen, Utrecht, Zwolle, and in the 1480s in places such as Haarlem, Leiden, and 's-Hertogenbosch.{{sfn|Proctor|1898}}{{citation |url= http://data.cerl.org/istc/_search?query=place:nl |title= (Place:NL) |work=Incunabula Short Title Catalogue: the International Database of 15th-century European Printing |location=UK |publisher=British Library |access-date= 9 December 2017 }} (Bibliography of editions published in the Netherlands; also browsable by [http://data.cerl.org/istc/_index/imprintplace town])
Among Dutch bestsellers are titles such as the 17th-century Lusthof des Gemoets by Jan Philipsz Schabaelje.{{citation |chapter=De "Lusthof des gemoets" van Jan Philipsz Schabaelje: het populairste Nederlandse boek uit de Gouden Eeuw |author=Piet Visser |title=Boekenwijsheid: drie eeuwen kennis en cultuur in 30 bijzondere boeken |isbn=9789057306259 |editor1=Jan Bos |editor2= Erik Geleijns |language=nl |year= 2009 |publisher=Walburg Pers }}{{cite web |url=http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85352447/ |title=Jan Philipsz Schabaelje, 1585?-1656 |work=WorldCat |access-date= 9 December 2017 }}
The Stichting Drukwerk in de Marge formed in 1975, and organizes an annual Boekkunstbeurs (book fair).{{cite web |url=http://drukwerkindemarge.org/over-drukwerk-in-de-marge/ |language=nl |title=Over ons |work=Drukwerkindemarge.org |publisher=Drukwerk in de Marge |access-date=9 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171209204002/http://drukwerkindemarge.org/over-drukwerk-in-de-marge/ |archive-date=9 December 2017 |url-status=dead }} Bibliophiles in 1991 organized the Nederlands Genootschap van Bibliofielen.{{cite web |url=http://www.bibliofielen.nl/overgenootschap.html |title=Over het Genootschap |work=Bibliofielen.nl |language=nl|publisher=Nederlands Genootschap van Bibliofielen |access-date= 9 December 2017 }} Zlibrary in 1991 organized the Nederlands Kloosterlaan Sas van Gent.{{cite web |url=https://zlibrary.to/dl/the-books-of-enoch|title=The books of enoch PDF|work=zlibrary.to|language=en|publisher=Nederlands Kloosterlaan Sas van Gent|access-date= 9 December 2017 }}
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization named Amsterdam the 2008 World Book Capital.
Collections
{{see also|List of libraries in the Netherlands}}
The Leiden University Library began in 1575, and the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (royal library) in The Hague in 1798. Since 1919, the Nederlandse Centrale Catalogus lists titles in Dutch libraries.
See also
References
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Bibliography
=In English=
- {{cite book |title=List of Bibliographical Works in the Reading Room of the British Museum |oclc= 3816244 |location=London |edition=2nd |editor1= G.W. Porter |editor2= G.K. Fortescue |year= 1889
|chapter= Bibliographies of Countries: Netherlands
|chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/listofbibliogra00brit#page/n47/mode/2up
|via= Internet Archive
}}
- {{cite book |title= Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum |author= Robert Proctor |location=London |publisher= Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company |oclc=6438080 |year= 1898
|chapter= Books Printed From Types: Holland |pages= 652+
|via= HathiTrust
|ref = {{harvid|Proctor|1898}}
|hdl= 2027/uc1.c3450632 |author-link= Robert Proctor (bibliographer) }}
- {{cite book |series=Bibliotheca Bibliographica Neerlandica |title=Incunabula Printed in the Low Countries: A Census |editor1=Gerard van Thienen |editor2= John Goldfinch |publisher=Brill |isbn=9789060044520 |year= 1999
}}
- {{cite book |title=Bookshop of the World: The Role of the Low Countries in the Book-Trade, 1473-1941 |editor1= Lotte Hellinga|display-editors=et al |publisher=Brill |oclc=50123419 |year=2001
}}
- {{cite book |editor1= Marieke T G E van Delft |editor2=Clemens de Wolf |title=Bibliopolis: History of the printed book in the Netherlands |isbn=9040088381 |year= 2003
|publisher=Waanders }}
- {{cite book |title= Netherlandish Books: Books Published in the Low Countries and Dutch Books Printed Abroad before 1601 |editor1= Andrew Pettegree |editor2= Malcolm Walsby |publisher=Brill |isbn= 9789004191976 |year= 2011
}}
- {{cite book|editor1=Michael F. Suarez |editor2=H. R. Woudhuysen |title=The Book: A Global History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sbacAQAAQBAJ |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn= 978-0-19-967941-6 |year= 2013
|chapter= The Low Countries
|author= Paul Hoftijzer
|pages= 349+
}} [http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88017553/][https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/paul-hoftijzer/publications#tab-2]
- {{citation |author=Paul G. Hoftijzer |title= The Dutch Republic, Centre of the European Book Trade in the 17th Century |work= European History Online |publisher=Leibniz Institute of European History |url= http://www.ieg-ego.eu/hoftijzerp-2015-en |year= 2015
}} {{open access}}
- {{cite book |title=Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World |editor1= Richard Kirwan |editor2= Sophie Mullins |publisher=Brill |isbn=9789004288102 |year=2015
|chapter=Books in Foreign Languages: Publishing in the Netherlands, 1500–1800
|author1= Rémi Mathis |author2= Marie-Alice Mathis
|author1-link= Rémi Mathis }}
=In Dutch=
- {{citation |title=Nieuwsblad voor de boekhandel |journal=Nieuwsblad voor den Boekhandel |trans-title=Newspaper for the book trade |issn=0028-9965 |language=nl |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008616031 |year=1834–1980
}}
- {{citation |title= {{illm|De Boekenwereld|nl}}: tijdschrift voor boek en prent |journal= De Boekenwereld |trans-title= Book World |language=nl |issn=0168-8391
}} 1984-
- {{citation |title= {{illm|Boekenpost|nl}}: tijdschrift voor de liefhebber van boeken, strips en boekencuriosa |journal=Boekenpost: Tijdschrift voor de Liefhebber van Boeken, Strips en Boekencuriosa |trans-title=Book Post: magazine for the lover of books |language=nl |issn=0928-4230
}} 1992-
- {{citation |title= {{illm|Jaarboek voor Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis|nl}} |journal=Jaarboek voor Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis |trans-title=Yearbook for Dutch Book History |issn=1381-0065 |language=nl |publisher=Nederlandse Boekhistorische Vereniging
}} 1994-
- {{cite book |author=Piet J. Buijnsters |title= Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse bibliofilie. Boek- en prentverzamelaars 1750-2010 |trans-title=History of the Dutch bibliophile: book and print collectors |isbn=9789460040436 |location= Nijmegen |language=nl |year= 2010
}}
- {{cite book|author=Erica van Boven|title=Bestsellers in Nederland, 1900-2015 |language=nl |publisher= {{illm|Garant (publisher)|nl|Garant (uitgeverij)|lt=Garant}} |location=Antwerp |isbn=978-90-441-3288-5 |year=2015
}}
External links
{{commons category|Books from the Netherlands}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.bibliopolis.nl |title= Bibliopolis.nl |language=nl |publisher=Koninklijke Bibliotheek }} (About history of the printed book in the Netherlands). [http://www.bibliopolis.nl/termen/list Index]
- {{cite web |work=WorldCat |publisher=OCLC |title=(su:Book industries and trade -- Netherlands) |url=http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=su%3ABook+industries+and+trade+Netherlands |location=US }} (Bibliography)
- {{cite web |title=Nederlandse Boekhistorische Vereniging |trans-title=Dutch Book Historical Society |language=en, nl |url=http://www.boekgeschiedenis.nl }}
- {{cite web |title=Belgisch-Nederlands Boekbandengenootschap |language=nl |url=http://boekbandengenootschap.nl }}
- [https://www.kb.nl/organisatie/voor-uitgevers/publicaties-deponeren Depot van Nederlandse Publicaties] (voluntary national deposit)
- {{cite web |url=https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/rijksstudio/16911--paul-hoftijzer/verzamelingen/boeken-en-lezen?ii=0&p=0 |title= Boeken en lezen |editor=Paul Hoftijzer
|series=Rijksstudio |work=Rijksmuseum.nl
}} (Assorted artworks depicting people with books)
- {{cite web |publisher=British Library |location=UK |work= Help for Researchers |url= http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/prbooks/index.html |title= Dutch Printed Collections, 1501-1850 }}
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