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The Plantin Press was one of the best known printing-publishing enterprises in the sixteenth century. In many ways, this bibliography builds and expands upon Leon Voet's well-known publication The Plantin Press. This bibliography of Jan Moretus I, Christopher Plantin's successor, documents the activities of the Plantin Press during the years 1589 till 1610. It contains descriptions of his own editions and other works printed by him. The extensive bibliography contains 704 descriptions of the Jan Moretus editions and lists over 500 announcements that he printed for the city of Antwerp.

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A ""bibliographical masterpiece [and] formidable book"". Frans A. Janssen, University of Amsterdam (Emeritus). In: Quaerendo, Vol. 45, Nos. 1-2 (2015), pp. 163-166. ""The vast scale of the [Moretus's printing] business has now been set out in a welcome and magisterial fashion."" David McKitterick, Cambridge. In: The Library, 7.16.4 (December 2015), pp. 472-473.

A bibliographical masterpiece [and] formidable book . Frans A. Janssen, University of Amsterdam (Emeritus). In: Quaerendo, Vol. 45, Nos. 1-2 (2015), pp. 163-166.

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Dirk Imhof is curator of the rare books and archives at the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. His research focuses on sixteenth-century book history. Together with Karen Bowen he published Christopher Plantin and Engraved Book Illustrations in Sixteenth Century Europe (Cambridge Uniersity Press, 2008).

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