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The machine printing and rapid cultural development in Europe begins with the discovery of metal lettering at the end of the 15th century. This printing technique has been named the letterpress printing and is one of the greatest inventions of mankind. The development of printing was one of the main indicators of the development of individual countries. We believe that today in the world and in Europe the Croatian development of that age is significantly neglected. This paper presents European development and development in Croatia. This paper will contribute to a more accurate evaluation of Croatian printing and cultural level of that time by displaying Croatian achievements of that era, the printing staff, printed works and printing houses, throughout European and Croatian development of printing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to present the development of printing activities in the city of Šibenik within the framework of its historical, political and cultural circumstances. The history of printing activities in Šibenik is not well known since very little systematic research had been conducted in this area. The paper focuses on the period between 1870 (founding of the first printing-house) and 1948, when, according to the Law on nationalisation of private enterprises, all privately owned printing-houses of that time had been confiscated and nationalised. The few and sporadic data from published works and archived materials are analyzed. Further archival research might contribute to our understanding not only of the development of printing activities in Šibenik in the context of local cultural history, but also of the history of Croatian printing in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As part of the 185th anniversary of founding the permanent printing and publishing trade in Varaždin, this paper presents the previously published data on the life and work of the printer Ivan Sangilla (1777-1832). Some of the data presented here, for instance the permit Sangilla obtained in order to open a printing-house in Varaždin, have been enriched by new information provided by rich archival sources. Thus the author managed to reconstruct the chronology of Sangilla's one-year correspondence with the authorities in Varaždin and Graz (Austria), and the higher authorities in Budapest during the course of 1820. Researching and identifying the titles produced and published by Sangilla among several library collections as well as in Kukuljević's Bibliographia Croatica, the author supplies us with the first list, bibliography, of Sangilla's opus consisting of 55 monograph publications and 6 periodicals (annual calenders). Of the monograph publications, 22 have been published in Kaykavski dialect of Croatian language, 19 of them in German and 14 in Latin. Of the calenders, 3 had been published in Croatian, 2 in German and 1 in Latin. Further investigation of Sangilla's publishing activities in the future should include Sangilla's tri-lingual production, calenders, etchings and individual titles from his opus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a new visual medium, prints appeared almost at the same time as printing industry and started gaining recognition in Croatia in the second half of the 15th century owing to the use of printed materials which provided the local craftsmen, painters and illuminators with the models to be copied. During the Renaissance, prints became fairly commonplace among the Croatian people, largely due to the illustrations found in religious books, especially those written in the Croatian language which were printed either in Venice or in one of the few local printing-houses (Senj, Rijeka, Nedeli{}e, Vara`din). Particularly strong at the time was the impact of the Venetian woodcuts found in a number of publications written in Glagolitic script and less frequently in those written in Cyrillic script or Latin. Judging by the works of Marko Maruli} (who, contrary to a common belief, was not the author of the illustrations published in his epic poem Judita) to those of Dominko Zlatari}, Venetian woodcuts exerted an important influence on the acceptance of prints along the Croatian Adriatic Coast during the 16th century. Prints frequently provided a source of inspiration for the local artists, thus making a significant contribution to the spreading of the Renaissance style within the intellectual context of Humanism. Around the middle of the 16th century, North-European prints became more widely available, primarily due to the publications of Croatian protestants from Urach near Tubingen. After giving an outline of the above-mentioned, largely passive acceptance of prints, the paper concludes with an emphasis on the creative contribution to the European history of printmaking by some "Schiavone" masters who were of Croatian origin but were active outside the boundaries of present-day Croatia. Those artists include Andrija Meduli} (Andrea Meldolla Schiavone), Martin Rota Koluni}, Natale Bonifacio and Juraj Julije Klovi} (Giorgio Giulio Clovio). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Croatia considers the book a priority cultural product. Today various forces, both positive and negative, affect publishing in Croatia. A survey of traditional publishing in Croatia based on statistical data collected by the author in the Croatian ISBN Agency over the past 8 years introduces the main topic. The author then reports on the results of a survey of 1,000 publishers, aimed at establishing which medium publishers used for their books between 1993 and the beginning of 1998, the period when book production passed from printed to digital form. The research results show that modern electronic book forms have been gradually developing in Croatia in parallel with traditional publishing. The number of publishers producing books in electronic format is not great. However, the fact that nearly a quarter of the publishers who returned the questionnaire do produce electronic books, shows that Croatian publishers accept new technologies as they appear in countries with a developed publishing industry, only in a much more modest scope. The author mentions electronic books published by as many as forty publishers, and gives a survey of online-bookstores in Croatia. Special attention is paid to book legislation in the country. As a conclusion the author proposes an incentive for electronic publishing. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]