Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 474 pages)
ISBN:
9789004208490
Series Statement:
Library of the written word v. 26
Content:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Commercial Network of the Company of Venice -- The Development of Commercial Networks -- Press Runs -- Warehouses -- Marks and Branches -- The Book Privilege System -- Distribution -- Fairs -- Retail Sales: Distribution -- Shop Inventories -- Managing a Bookshop -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
Content:
This work offers the first English-language survey of the book industry in Renaissance Italy. Whereas traditional accounts of the book in the Renaissance celebrate authors and literary achievement, this study examines the nuts and bolts of a rapidly expanding trade that built on existing economic practices while developing new mechanisms in response to political and religious realities. Approaching the book trade from the perspective of its publishers and booksellers, this archive-based account ranges across family ambitions and warehouse fires to publishers' petitions and convivial bookshop conversation. In the process it constructs a nuanced picture of trading networks, production, and the distribution and sale of printed books, a profitable but capricious commodity. Originally published in Italian as Il commercio librario nell’Italia del Rinascimento (Milan: Franco Angeli, 1998; second, revised edition, 2003), this present English translation has not only been updated but has also been deeply revised and augmented
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004245471
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004245472
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004208490
