Print culture and peripheries in early modern Europe : a contribution to the history of printing and the book trade in small European and Spanish cities / edited by Benito Rial Costas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rial Costas, Benito.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Library of the written word ; volume 24.

Library of the written word ; volume 24. The handpress world ; volume 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Printing--Europe--History--16th century.

Printing.

Printing--Europe--History--Origin and antecedents.

Book industries and trade--Europe--History--16th century.

Book industries and trade.

Book industries and trade--Europe--History--To 1500.

History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 421 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Summary:

Despite the fact that, if only by number, small and peripheral cities played an important role in fifteenth and sixteenth-century European print culture, book history has mainly been dominated by monographs on individual big book centres. Through a number of specific case studies, which deploy a variety of methods and a wide range of sources, this volume seeks to enhance our understanding of printing and the book trade in small and peripheral European cities in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and to emphasize the necessity of new research for the study of print culture in such cities. Book jacket.

Contents:

European provincial towns : demographic and institutional trends in regional networks, 1400-1600 / Pablo Sanchez Leon

A golden age : monastic printing houses in the fifteenth century / Falk Eisermann

Advertising or fama? : local markets for schoolbooks in sixteenth-century Italy / Paul F. Gehl

The book trade in early modern Britain : centres, peripheries and networks / John Hinks

Impressorie Arte : the impact of printing in Exeter and Devon / Ian Maxted

Printing in the shadow of a metropolis / Hubert Meeus

Towns and book culture in Hungary at the end of the fifteenth century and during the sixteenth century / Istvan Monok

Ippolito Ferrarese, a traveling 'Cerretano' and publisher in sixteenth-century Italy / Giancarlo Petrella

Print and book culture in the Danish town of Odense / Wolfgang Undorf

Printer mobility in sixteenth-century France / Malcolm Walsby

Printing presses in Antequera in the sixteenth century / Natalia Maillard Alvarez and Rafael M. Perez Garcia

The liturgical books published by Pedro de Castro, Bishop of Cuenca (1554-1561) / Jaime Moll

Minor printing offices in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Aragon : Hijar, Huesca and Epila / Jose Manuel Pedraza Gracia

Barcelona : printers, booksellers and local markets in the sixteenth century / Manuel Pena Diaz

The book in Segovia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries : accident, chance, necessity? / Fermin de los Reyes and Marta M. Nadales

Santiago de Compostela : a case study of bookselling in peripheries / Benito Rial Costas

From Europe to Finisterre : a caravan of books to Galicia (1595) / Anastasio Rojo Vega.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9789004235748

9004235744

OCLC:

805831482