In Search of How-to Sammelbände

In the last months of 2025, my research for our how-to project took an unexpected turn. Specifically, it began to revolve around a bibliographic concept of which I’d be largely unfamiliar only a few months prior: the Sammelband. Sammelband of four Lutheran works, 1578, Folger Shakespeare Library. Sammelbände (in its plural from, from the German word for ‘anthology’) are single volumes containing multiple separate books bound together. Though practically unheard of in modern publishing (as fa...