A maturing market : : the Iberian book world in the first half of the seventeenth century / / edited by Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo, Alexander S. Wilkinson.

Within just a generation or two of its arrival, print had become a ubiquitous and spirited part of Spain and Portugal’s urban cultures. It serviced an ever-expanding reading public, as well as many and varied practical quotidian needs. Its impact on society was multi-dimensional and complex, and its...

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Superior document:Library of the Written Word. The Handpress World, Volume 59
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Library of the written word. Handpress world ; Volume 59.
Physical Description:1 online resource (301 pages) :; illustrations, graphs.
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Alexander S. Wilkinson
  • Surveys of the Book Trade
  • A Maturing Market: The Iberian Book World in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century / Alexander S. Wilkinson
  • Printing in Antwerp in the Early Seventeenth Century and Its Connections with the Iberian World / César Manrique Figueroa
  • The Importation of Books into New Spain During the Seventeenth Century / Idalia García
  • Women and the Iberian Book Trade, 1472–1650 / Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo
  • Addressing the Reader in Golden-Age Spain
  • The Book-Reader Relationship in Golden-Age Spain: Reading Practices and the Publishing Industry in Don Quixote / Sarah Malfatti
  • ‘Reasons of State for Any Author’: Common Sense, Translation, and the International Republic of Letters / José María Pérez Fernández
  • Writing Literature for Publication, 1605–1637 / Esther Villegas de la Torre
  • The Stage in Print
  • Printed Plays in Early Modern Spain / Don Cruickshank
  • Cervantes’s Ocho comedias: From the Pen to the Print-Shop / John O’Neill
  • Printing Licenses and the Trade in Fiction in Spain in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century / Manuel Calderón Calderón
  • Market Specialisms: Chivalric Literature, Medicine and the News
  • Printing Books of Chivalry in Portugal at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century / Aurelio Vargas Díaz-Toledo
  • Medical Publishing in Portugal in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century: A Good Business? / Hervé Baudry
  • The Golden Age of the Single Event Printed Newsletter: Relaciones de sucesos, 1601–1650 / Henry Ettinghausen
  • ‘Things Worthy of Being Known’: The Reception and Consumption of the Press in Catalonia During the First Half of the Seventeenth Century / Ricard Expósito Amagat.