1544 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1544.

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References

  1. "Cornelis Willem, Claussone, van sHertogenbossche figuersnyder in copper" (Peter van der Coelen, "Cornelis Bos: Where Did He Go? Some New Discoveries and Hypotheses about a Sixteenth-Century Engraver and Publisher", Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art23.2/3 [1995:119-146] p. 119 note 3).
  2. Davenport, Cyril. English Embroidered Bookbindings, Chapter 2, from Project Gutenberg. Accessed 21 January 2008.
  3. Pottinger, David T. (1958). The French Book Trade in the Ancien Regime, 1500–1791 . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p.  57.
  4. Alexander S. Wilkinson (17 May 2010). Iberian Books / Libros ibéricos (IB): Books Published in Spanish or Portuguese or on the Iberian Peninsula before 1601 / Libros publicados en español o portugués o en la Península Ibérica antes de 1601. BRILL. p. 74. ISBN   978-90-04-19341-3.
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