Everyday Life in the German Book Trade : : Friedrich Nicolai as Bookseller and Publisher in the Age of Enlightenment / / Pamela E. Selwyn.
In his popular book The Germans (1982), Stanford historian Gordon Craig remarked: ";When German intellectuals at the end of the eighteenth century talked of living in a Frederican age, they were sometimes referring not to the monarch in Sans Souci, but to his namesake, the Berlin bookseller Fri...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Penn State Series in the History of the Book
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (440 p.) :; 1 map |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The Life and Opinions of Friedrich Nicolai: Buchhändler and Aufklärer
- 2 The Nicolaische Buchhandlung, 1759-1811: A Publishing Company in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution
- 3 Everyday Life in the Book Trade
- 4 The Legal and Political Framework of the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade: Privilege, Piracy, and Censorship
- 5 The Allgemeine deutsche Bibliothek as the Centerpiece of Nicolai's Program of Enlightenment and of his Firm
- 6 Literary-Mercantile Relations: Nicolai and His Authors
- Afterword
- Appendix: Nicolai's Shop Employees
- Bibliography
- Index