Buying and Selling : : The Business of Books in Early Modern Europe /

Buying and Selling : : The Business of Books in Early Modern Europe / / Shanti Graheli.

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 sour...

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Graheli, Shanti,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, , Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Library of the Written Word 72.
Physical Description:1 online resource (583 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 / Andrew Pettegree and Shanti Graheli
  • 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) / Lucas Burkart
  • Venetian Incunabula for Florentine Bookshops (ca. 1473–1483) / Lorenz Böninger
  • Book Prices in Early Modern Europe: an Economic Perspective / Jeremiah Dittmar
  • Privileging the Common Good: the Moral Economy of Printing Privileges in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic / Marius Buning
  • Day to Day Practices of Book Buying and Selling
  • The Business of Browsing in Early Modern English Bookshops / Philip Tromans
  • Printing for the Pilgrims: Krakow Seventeenth-Century Guidebooks / Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba
  • Book Lotteries as Sale Events for Slow-Sellers: the Case of Amsterdam in the Late Eighteenth Century / Daniel Bellingradt
  • Selling Strategies
  • Neither Scholar nor Printer: Luxembourg de Gabiano and the Financial Structure of Merchant Publishing in Sixteenth-Century Lyon / Jamie Cumby
  • Editing the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae: Robert Estienne’s Dream and Nightmare / Martine Furno
  • ‘Large Volumes Bought by the Few’: Printing and Selling Postils in Early Modern Poland / Magdalena Komorowska
  • Buying and Selling in One Trip: Book Barter in Times of Trouble for Francesco Ciotti’s Printing and Bookselling House / Domenico Ciccarello
  • The State of Scottish Bookselling circa 1800 / Vivienne Dunstan
  • Cashing in on Counterfeits: Fraud in the Reformation Print Industry / Drew B. Thomas
  • List and Inventories
  • ‘Men and Books under Watch’: the Brussels’ Book Market in the Mid-Sixteenth Century through the Inquisitorial Archives / Renaud Adam
  • ‘Beautiful Intellects Should Not Hide’: the Bookshop of Luciano Pasini, Bookseller and Publisher between Perugia and Venice in the Late Sixteenth Century / Natale Vacalebre
  • Early Modern Shelf Lives: the Context and Content of Georg Willer’s Music Stock Catalogue of 1622 / Amelie Roper
  • Religion, Learning and Commerce: Daniel Delerpinière, a Protestant Bookseller in Saumur, 1661 / Jean-Paul Pittion
  • New Markets
  • Turning News into a Business: the Commerce of Early Newspaper Publishing / Jan Hillgärtner
  • Booksellers, Newspaper Advertisements and a National Market for Print in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic / Arthur der Weduwen
  • ‘Without Being Denounced or Humiliated’: the Purchase of Books for Religious Communities in New Spain / Idalia Garcia
  • Advertising and Selling in Cromwellian Newsbooks / Jason McElligott
  • Modern Book Market
  • Book Bitch to the Rich—the Strife and Times of the Revd. Dr. Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776–1847) / John A. Sibbald
  • Lost in Transaction: ‘Discollecting’ Incunabula in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Falk Eisermann
  • Back Matter
  • Modern Authors’ Index.

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