Johannes Jelgerhuis - De winkel van boekhandelaar Pieter Meijer Warnars op de Vijgendam te Amsterdam

As of 2018,

Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer N.V. is a Dutch information services company. The company serves legal, business, tax, accounting, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and healthcare markets. Wolters Kluwer in its current form was founded in 1987 with a merger bet ...

ranks as the Dutch biggest

publisher Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...

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in terms of revenue. Other notable Dutch houses include

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(est. 1683) and

Elsevier Elsevier ( ) is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content. Its products include journals such as ''The Lancet'', ''Cell (journal), Cell'', the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, ...

(est. 1880).

History

Printed books first appeared in the 1470s in places such as

Delft Delft () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, Netherlands. It is located between Rotterdam, to the southeast, ...

Deventer Deventer (; Sallaans dialect, Sallands: ) is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Salland historical region of the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of Overijssel, ...

, Gouda,

Nijmegen Nijmegen ( , ; Nijmeegs: ) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and the ninth largest of the Netherlands as a whole. Located on the Waal River close to the German border, Nijmegen is one of the oldest cities in the ...

Utrecht Utrecht ( ; ; ) is the List of cities in the Netherlands by province, fourth-largest city of the Netherlands, as well as the capital and the most populous city of the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of Utrecht (province), Utrecht. The ...

Zwolle Zwolle () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Northeastern Netherlands. It is the Capital city, capital of the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of Overijssel ...

, and in the 1480s in places such as

Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English language, English) is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the Provinces of the Nether ...

Leiden Leiden ( ; ; in English language, English and Archaism, archaic Dutch language, Dutch also Leyden) is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Nethe ...

, and

's-Hertogenbosch s-Hertogenbosch (), colloquially known as Den Bosch (), is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Netherlands with a population of 160,783. It is the capital of ...

. Among Dutch

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s are titles such as the 17th-century ''Lusthof des Gemoets'' by Jan Philipsz Schabaelje. The Stichting Drukwerk in de Marge formed in 1975, and organizes an annual Boekkunstbeurs (book fair). Bibliophiles in 1991 organized the Nederlands Genootschap van Bibliofielen. Zlibrary in 1991 organized the Nederlands Kloosterlaan Sas van Gent. The

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named Amsterdam the 2008

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Collections

The

Leiden University Library Leiden University Libraries is the set of libraries of Leiden University, founded in 1575 in Leiden, Netherlands. A later edition entitled ''The bastion of liberty : a history of Leiden University'', was published in 2018. Full-text at archive ...

began in 1575, and the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (royal library) in The Hague in 1798. Since 1919, the '' Nederlandse Centrale Catalogus'' lists titles in Dutch libraries.

References

Bibliography

In English

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https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/paul-hoftijzer/publications#tab-2] * *

In Dutch

* * 1984- * 1992- * 1994- * *

External links

* (About history of the printed book in the Netherlands)
Index
* (Bibliography) * *
Depot van Nederlandse Publicaties
(voluntary legal deposit, national deposit) * (Assorted artworks depicting people with books) * {{Netherlands topics

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