The book printers Jiří Jakubův Dačický and Jan Othmar Jakubův Dačický

The thesis "The book printers Jiří Jakubův Dačický and Jan Othmar Jakubův Dačický" deals with the lives and printing activities of the named book printers, who worked in the Old Town in Prague at the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century. The thesis is based on the primary and secondary sources and preserved old prints from their production. Its aim is to clarify unknown parts of the history of the book printing in Prague and to discuss its unjustly neglected printing workshops. The text is divided into five main parts. The first one deals with the careers of the named printers and with the analysis of their private and professional lives. The second part interests in their printing production. The prints were divided into thematic groups and described according to literary-historical and library scientifical aspects. The studied prints were examined in their relationship to their previous and subsequent publications by other printers, too. The third part is the typological- typographical analysis. Here the autor focuses on typographical form of the prints, used typesetting, decorating, etc. The aim was not only to register used typographical material of the studied printers in time, but also to find out how much these (and possibly other contemporary) printing works cooperated,..