Trumpets from the Tower: English Puritan Printing in the Netherlands 1600-1640

Description

This volume deals with English Puritan book printing and publishing in the Netherlands, especially in the cities of Amsterdam and Leiden, in the early seventeenth century. Because of censorship in England, many Puritans had to go abroad to have their books printed. Once produced by Dutch presses, the books were shipped, or smuggled, back to England. The book centers on a body of about 350 Puritanical books, mostly in the English language, printed in the Dutch Republic by Puritan printers in exile or by sympathetic Dutch printers. The book examines the chain of authors, printers, publishers, financial backers, smugglers, and booksellers involved. Zealous Puritan believers participated at each stage. This book is important for studying the relationship between Dutch printing and Puritan activities in Britain. Preface ix Abbreviations xiii 1. Puritans and the Printing Press 1 2. The Open Doors of Dutch Printing 28 3. Puritan Renaissance (or Puritan "Babel"?) at Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam 46 4. Puritan Printing at Amsterdam 84 5. Puritan Printing at Leiden 125 6. Distributing the Books 156 7. The Wider Fellowship of Dutch-English Book Publishing and Translation 170 Selected bibliography 178 APPENDIXES I. Amsterdam Printers and Booksellers 191 II. Leiden Printers and Booksellers 213 III. Editors, Publishers, and Financial Backers 219 IV. A Selected List of Anonymously Printed Puritan Books 224 INDEXES Index of Persons 228 Index of Subjects and Places 236