Place of publication
The place of publication , in the case of print products often also the place of printing , is the place indicated in the imprint where the title is supposed to have been put on the market - usually the place where the company that was active as a publisher is located.
Information in printed works
In the case of printing works, one traditionally speaks of the “place of printing” and means the place of publication , even if the printing should actually be done by a printer at a different location; the name stems from the time of the " printer publishers " (who usually also ran their own shop).
If more than one place of publication is specified, the first is usually the head office; international branches can be named below.
Print locations can be as fictional as entire imprints . Cologne was the most popular fictional printing location in the early modern era and on title pages a sure sign that the present font was explosive (or should sell better as supposedly explosive). Cologne, close to the French border, would theoretically have been an ideal location for printing international French-language fonts outside of France, but in fact suffered from such strict censorship that printers preferred to print in The Hague , Amsterdam and Rotterdam , and then illegally and legally in France carry out the rest of Europe. The signal of the fictitious printing location could also be given a fantasy name: Utopia , free city, or a far away improbable place. Christian Reuter wanted the individual volumes of his Schelmuffsky to be printed in St. Malo , Schelmerode and Rome in the 1690s .
In early modern prints, the Latin print location information requires your own expertise. Important and sometimes confusing print location information are z. B .:
- Argentoratum: Strasbourg (France)
- Batava: Passau (Germany)
- Ebredunum or Eburodunum: either Embrun (France), Yverdon (Switzerland), Évreux (France) or Brno (Moravia)
- Hammipolis: Hamburg (Germany)
- Herbipolis: Würzburg (Germany)
- Holmia: Stockholm (Sweden)
- Londinium Gothorum or Londinum Scanorum: Lund (Sweden)
- Lugdunum or Lugdunum Sequanorum: Lyon (France)
- Lugdunum or Lugdunum Batavorum: Leiden (Netherlands)
- Lugidunum: Liegnitz (Poland)
- Lutetia: Paris (France)
- Mömpelgart or Mompelgartum: Montbéliard (France)
- Olysippone: Lisbon (Portugal)
- Ratisbona: Regensburg (Germany)
- Trajectum Batavorum or Trajectum ad Rhenum: Utrecht (Netherlands)
literature
- (On relocations of the printing location on the novel market in the early modern period :) Olaf Simons: Marteau's Europe or the novel before it became literature (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001)
