Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650-1750.

• Superior document: Library of the Written Word Series ; v.126
• Author: Hansen, Ann-Marie.
• TeilnehmendeR: der Weduwen, Arthur.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Library of the Written Word Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (343 pages)

This edited volume explores the development of the European book world between 1650 and 1750, concentrating on changes in publishing strategies, practices of censorship, the circulation of second-hand books and the building of libraries.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1 Publishing Strategies -- 1 Practitioners, Pills and the Press: Publishing Strategies in the Dutch Medical Market (c.1660-c.1770) -- 2 School Books, Public Education and the State of Literacy in Early Modern Catalonia -- 3 The Cometary Apparition of 1743/44: Periodical Journals in the Holy Roman Empire and Their Communicative Role -- Part 2 Censorship and Evasion -- 4 A Peculiar Case of Entrepreneurial Bravery: The First Edition of Galileo Galilei's Collected Works in the Context of Mid-seventeenth-century Publishing and Censorship -- 5 Persecuted in the Spanish Colonies: Inquisitorial Censorship and the Circulation of Medical and Scientific Books in New Spain and New Granada -- 6 The Troubles of a Protestant Bookseller in a Catholic Market: The Nuremberg Bookseller Johann Friedrich Rüdiger (1686-1751) and the Prague Book Trade -- 7 Disclosing False Imprints: a New Look at Eighteenth-Century French Printed Production -- Part 3 Auctions, Collectors and Catalogues -- 8 Early Modern English Parish Libraries: Collecting and Collections in the Francis Trigge Chained Library and the Gorton Chest Parish Library -- 9 'Libri Anglici': English Books in Danish and Dutch Library Collections, c.1650-1720 -- 10 The Government at Auction: Urban Policy and the Market for Books in Eighteenth-Century Lübeck -- 11 Philosophie or Commerce? Classification Systems in Eighteenth-Century French Private Library Catalogues -- 12 Sir Hans Sloane's Collection of Books and Manuscripts: an Enlightenment Library? -- Index.