The paper trade in early modern Europe : : practices, materials, networks / / edited by Daniel Bellingradt and Anna Reynolds.

"This book attends to the most essential, lucrative, and overlooked business activity of early modern Europe: the trade of paper. Despite the well-known fact that paper was crucial to the success of printing and record-keeping alike, paper remains one of the least studied areas of early modern...

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Superior document:Library of the Written Word ; Volume 89
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Library of the written word ; Volume 89.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Daniel Bellingradt and Anna Reynolds
  • List of Illustrations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 The Paper Trade in Early Modern Europe: An Introduction
  • Daniel Bellingradt
  • part 1: Hotspots and Trade Routes
  • 2 Selling Paper in Early Modern Venice: Paper-retailers and the "Libri da carta bianca"
  • Anna Gialdini
  • 3 'Unter dem Zeichen des Adlers': Frankfurt as Hub of the Central European Paper Trade in the 16th Century
  • Megan K. Williams
  • 4 The Paper Supply of a Printing House as a Mirror of the Paper Trade in the Early Modern Low Countries: The Case of Dirk Martens' Workshop
  • Renaud Adam
  • 5 Juan Tomás Fabario and the Paper Trade in Early Modern Spain or the Supply of Paper as a New Modality of Publishing
  • Benito Rial Costas
  • 6 Paper Flows through the Danish Sound, 1634-1857
  • Jan Willem Veluwenkamp
  • 7 Networks of Paper in Late Medieval England
  • Orietta Da Rold
  • part 2: Usual Dealings
  • 8 Types and Sources of Paper in Late Medieval Finland: A Case Study of the Paper in Raseborg Castle Scriptorium, ca. 1390-1435
  • Tapio Salminen.
  • 9 Buying Paper for the Consulate: Insights into the Paper Trade of Lyon, 1450-1525
  • Jean-Benoît Krumenacker
  • 10 The Usage and Acquisition of Paper in the Jagiellonian Courts, 1490-1507
  • Krisztina Rábai
  • 11 The Paper Purchases of the Dutch East India Company's Amsterdam Chamber in the Early Eighteenth Century
  • Frank Birkenholz
  • 12 Stationers, Papetiers and the Supply Networks of a Swiss Publisher: The Sociéte Typographique de Neuchâtel and the Paper Trade 1769-1789
  • Simon Burrows, Michael Falk, Rachel Hendery, and Katherine McDonough
  • 13 The Paper Trails of Guðbrandur Þorláksson: A Case Study of the Official and Private Paths Used for Purchasing Paper by the Sixteenth-Century Bishop of Hólar, Iceland
  • Silvia Hufnagel
  • Part 3: Recycling Economies
  • 14 Material Sensibilities: Writing Paper and Chemistry in the Netherlands and Beyond, ca. 1800
  • Andreas Weber
  • 15 "Worthy to Be Reserved": Bookbindings and the Waste Paper Trade in Early Modern England and Scotland
  • Anna Reynolds
  • Part 4: Epilogue
  • 16 Afterword
  • Helen Smith
  • Index.