Book Trade Catalogues in Early Modern Europe.

"This edited collection offers in seventeen chapters the latest scholarship on book catalogues in early modern Europe. Contributors discuss the role that these catalogues played in bookselling and book auctions, as well as in guiding the tastes of book collectors and inspiring some of the great...

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Superior document:Library of the Written Word
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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : BRILL,, 2021.
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Library of the Written Word
Physical Description:1 online resource (570 pages)
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Summary:"This edited collection offers in seventeen chapters the latest scholarship on book catalogues in early modern Europe. Contributors discuss the role that these catalogues played in bookselling and book auctions, as well as in guiding the tastes of book collectors and inspiring some of the greatest libraries of the era. Catalogues in the Low Countries, Britain, Germany, France and the Baltic region are studied as important products of the early modern book trade, and as reconstructive tools for the history of the book. These catalogues offer a goldmine of information on the business of books, and they allow scholars to examine questions on the distribution and ownership of books that would otherwise be extremely difficult to pursue"--
ISBN:9004422242
Hierarchical level:Monograph