UID:
almafu_9961373553102883
Format:
1 online resource (583 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
90-04-34039-4
Series Statement:
Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World ; v. 72
Content:
Buying and Selling explores the many facets of the business of books across and beyond Europe, adopting the viewpoints of printers, publishers, booksellers, and readers. Essays by twenty-five scholars from a range of disciplines seek to reconstruct the dynamics of the trade through a variety of sources. Through the combined investigation of printed output, documentary evidence, provenance research, and epistolary networks, this volume trails the evolving relationship between readers and the book trade. In the resulting picture of failure and success, balanced precariously between debt-economies, sale strategies and uncertain profit, customers stand out as the real winners.
Note:
Front Matter --
,
Copyright Page --
,
Editorial Conventions --
,
Figures and Tables --
,
Notes on Contributors --
,
How to Lose Money in the Business of Books: Commercial Strategies in the First Age of Print /
,
Debt Economies and Bookselling Risks --
,
Early Book Printing and Venture Capital in the Age of Debt: the Case of Michel Wenssler’s Basel Printing Shop (1472–1491) /
,
Venetian Incunabula for Florentine Bookshops (ca. 1473–1483) /
,
Book Prices in Early Modern Europe: an Economic Perspective /
,
Privileging the Common Good: the Moral Economy of Printing Privileges in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic /
,
Day to Day Practices of Book Buying and Selling --
,
The Business of Browsing in Early Modern English Bookshops /
,
Printing for the Pilgrims: Krakow Seventeenth-Century Guidebooks /
,
Book Lotteries as Sale Events for Slow-Sellers: the Case of Amsterdam in the Late Eighteenth Century /
,
Selling Strategies --
,
Neither Scholar nor Printer: Luxembourg de Gabiano and the Financial Structure of Merchant Publishing in Sixteenth-Century Lyon /
,
Editing the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae: Robert Estienne’s Dream and Nightmare /
,
‘Large Volumes Bought by the Few’: Printing and Selling Postils in Early Modern Poland /
,
Buying and Selling in One Trip: Book Barter in Times of Trouble for Francesco Ciotti’s Printing and Bookselling House /
,
The State of Scottish Bookselling circa 1800 /
,
Cashing in on Counterfeits: Fraud in the Reformation Print Industry /
,
List and Inventories --
,
‘Men and Books under Watch’: the Brussels’ Book Market in the Mid-Sixteenth Century through the Inquisitorial Archives /
,
‘Beautiful Intellects Should Not Hide’: the Bookshop of Luciano Pasini, Bookseller and Publisher between Perugia and Venice in the Late Sixteenth Century /
,
Early Modern Shelf Lives: the Context and Content of Georg Willer’s Music Stock Catalogue of 1622 /
,
Religion, Learning and Commerce: Daniel Delerpinière, a Protestant Bookseller in Saumur, 1661 /
,
New Markets --
,
Turning News into a Business: the Commerce of Early Newspaper Publishing /
,
Booksellers, Newspaper Advertisements and a National Market for Print in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic /
,
‘Without Being Denounced or Humiliated’: the Purchase of Books for Religious Communities in New Spain /
,
Advertising and Selling in Cromwellian Newsbooks /
,
Modern Book Market --
,
Book Bitch to the Rich—the Strife and Times of the Revd. Dr. Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776–1847) /
,
Lost in Transaction: ‘Discollecting’ Incunabula in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries /
,
Back Matter --
,
Modern Authors’ Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-04-34032-7
Language:
English
