Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650-1750.
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.
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| Superior document: | Library of the Written Word Series ; v.126 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : BRILL,, 2024. ©2024. |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of the Written Word Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (343 pages) |
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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.