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37 Grotiana (n.s.) 1 (2016)

handle is hein.journals/grotia37 and id is 1 raw text is: GROTIANA 37 (2016) 1-15 GROTIANA BRILL brill.com/grot The Restless Mind and the Living Text The First Edition of Grotius's De iure belli ac pacis Douglasj Osler Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt a/M. osler@rg.mpg.de Abstract A reconstruction is attempted of the printing process of the first edition of De lure belli ac pacis, and of the circumstances thereof, on the basis of a study of various copies still extant. It is argued that a distinction should be drawn between variations that re- sulted from a hurried printing process and those that were interventions by the author himself. Keywords book history - Hugo Grotius - Frankfurt book fair - De iure belli ac pacis The first edition of the world's greatest lawbook, the De iure beth ac pacis of Hugo Grotius, published at Paris in 1625 by the eminent French printer Nico- laus Buon, is found in two clearly distinct states. These two states resulted from the decision to permit some copies of the work to filter through to the book market before printing was complete. Printing of the book had begun in mid November 1624,1 but two months later, in mid January 1625, only limited progress had been made.2 Soon thereafter, however, the job started to pick up pace, for the printers were now working to a deadline: the spring book fair in Frankfurt am Main, the most propitious occasion on which to launch a new I Briefwisseling van Hugo Grotius, ed. by P.C. Molhuysen et al., 17 vols (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1928-2001) [hereafter Bw], 11-930 (8 November 1624, toJ. de Groot). Grotius writes that print- ing was to begin within a quadtriduum or four days. 2 BW II.939 (L7 January 1625, to J. de Groot). © KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2016 DOI 10.1163/18760759-03700002

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