Malcolm Walsby

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Professor of book history, director of the Gabriel Naude research centre at Enssib (University of Lyon)

Extrait d'un minute notariale: La prairie appelée vulgairement la grand crotte
View of the open access article
Part of the title page of the 1617 Paris edition
Detail of an engraving of the massacre of Sens in 1562
Engraving of a woman selling books - it features on the cover of 'Entre l'atelier et le lecteur: Le commerce du livre imprimé dans la France de la Renaissance': https://books.openedition.org/pur/298922
Photo of the fragment of the incunable
Title page of the edition of the 'Sommaire des privilèges, exemptions et indulgences'
Start of the conclusion of an article
Verse written on the cover of a register
Full text: The printing and reading of Renaissance books have been extensively studied. But what happened between the printing of the pages in the workshop and the moment a reader picked up a volume has not attracted much attention. Yet this movement from the workshop to the reader was a crucial stage in the life of any publication. The analysis of this stage allows us to understand the true impact of printing. Local, national and international distribution, as well as the methods of selling printed matter, are fundamental to explaining how people gained access to books in Renaissance France. Drawing on previously unknown archival sources scattered throughout France and beyond, as well as the examination of tens of thousands of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century books preserved in numerous European libraries, this study offers a radically new approach to the first century and a half of the circulation and sale of printed books in France. It is the result of more than twenty years of research in the field.
Les livrets des quatre dernières années du Master CEI
An engraving of a man and a woman involved in a brawl
Front page of the Sammelband Flyleaf n°7
Nina Lamal starting her paper
Conference poster on 'Mapping knowledge'
Poster on arsenic and light
Poster for Biblyon 2025
Page de titre du numéro 9 de Balisages
Photo of part of the exhibition
Biblia sacra title page
Close up of G3r of a book printed on vellum
Medallions of Erasmus, Luther and Melanchthon
Affiche de l'intervention du 21 mars 2025 sur le Persiles de Cervantes
Watermark of a pot with the letters POT
Title page of the first edition of La Bruyère's 'Caracteres'
Inner margin of the third edition
Title page of the forthcoming book 'Entre l'atelier et le lecteur. Le commerce du livre imprimé dans la France de la Renaissance'
Flyer pour les nuits de la lecture à Rouen
Photo of 16th century binding waste
Detail of an early 17th-c painting of cheese
Caroline Moine and the box
Start of the first chapter of the 1617 edition
Cover of Perdite e sopravvivenze del libro antico: il ruolo delle miscellanee (Udine, Forum, 2024)
Signatures of Richarde Paillette and Loys Boullet
16th-century engravings of chestnuts
16th-century engravings of chestnuts
A trumpeter in 16th-c France
A trumpeter in 16th-c France