News, Business and Public Information: Advertisements and Announcements in Dutch and Flemish Newspapers, 1620-1675

by Arthur der Weduwen

The history of newspaper advertising began in the seventeenth-century Low Countries. The newspaper publishers of the Dutch Republic were the first to embrace advertisements, decades before their peers in other news markets in Europe. In this survey, Arthur der Weduwen and Andrew Pettegree have brought together the first 6,000 advertisements placed in Dutch and Flemish newspapers between 1620 and 1675. Provided here in an English translation, and accompanied...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004420827
• ISBN13: 9789004420823
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 680 Pages
• Weight: 5.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.8" x 11.6"