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

✍ Scribed by Keith L. Sprunger

• Publisher: E. J. Brill
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 258
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 46
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

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