The book trade in the Italian Renaissance / by Angela Nuovo ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.
This work offers the first English-language survey of the book industry in Renaissance Italy. Whereas traditional accounts of the book in the Renaissance celebrate authors and literary achievement, this study examines the nuts and bolts of a rapidly expanding trade that built on existing economic pr...
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Superior document: | Library of the written word, v. 26 |
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Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Library of the written word ;
26. Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 20. |
Physical Description: | xv, 474 p. :; ill. |
Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- The commercial network of The Company of Venice
- The development of commercial networks
- Press runs
- Warehouses
- Marks and branches
- The book privilege system
- Distribution
- Fairs
- Retail sales : distribution inside and outside of bookshops
- Shop inventories
- Managing a bookshop.