An imprint – usually found at the bottom of a book’s titlepage (from the 16th century onwards at least!) – is a statement to the reader and to the authorities, on behalf of the publisher and printer, claiming responsibility for… Read More ›
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‘A book forged in hell’: Spinoza and false imprints
Special Collections holds five copies of the work Tractatus theologico-politicus, printed in Hamburg by Heinrich Künrath in 1670. Or so it would seem. Despite the claims of the title page, none of these volumes was printed in Hamburg; nor by… Read More ›
