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This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article that has been published in its final definitive form by Brill, 2021.
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From their earliest existence cheap printed texts were intended to be read by a mixed-age audience, young people included. Research on children’s literature has flourished in the last decades, nonetheless the role that cheap and ephemeral print played in early modern children’s lives has been largely overlooked.Based on both existing literature and new research in various European areas, this article asks how, where, and when a market for a distinctively children’s cheap print took shape and how transnational this phenomenon was. It demonstrates that children were avid consumers of cheap print even before they were openly addressed to in titlepages and paratexts, and that a market for them developed at different paces in early modern European countries. In some areas, books for children were produced even before the so-called birth of modern children’s literature. Furthermore, this essays shows how the evolution of printing techniques and especially the introduction of colour changed this market, making a wider range of printed products more widely affordable by juvenile audiences as well as more appealing to young eyes.
Author(s): Carnelos L, Marazzi E
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Quaerendo
Year: 2021
Volume: 51
Issue: 1-2
Pages: 189-215
Print publication date: 01/05/2021
Online publication date: 07/05/2021
Acceptance date: 01/02/2021
Date deposited: 17/05/2021
ISSN (print): 0014-9527
ISSN (electronic): 1570-0690
Publisher: Brill
URL: https://doi.org/10.1163/15700690-12341487
DOI: 10.1163/15700690-12341487
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