Specialist markets in the early modern book world / edited by Richard Kirwan, Sophie Mullins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kirwan, Richard, editor.

Mullins, Sophie, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 31.

Library of the written word ; volume 40. The handpress world ; volume 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Book industries and trade.

Book industries and trade--Europe--History--17th century.

Publishers and publishing--Europe--History--16th century.

Publishers and publishing.

Publishers and publishing--Europe--History--17th century.

Booksellers and bookselling--Europe--History--16th century.

Booksellers and bookselling.

Books.

History.

Printing.

Europe.

Booksellers and bookselling--Europe--History--17th century.

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

Printing--Europe--History--17th century.

Books--Europe--History--1450-1600.

Books--Europe--History--17th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 414 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Summary:

Specialist Markets in the Early Modem Book World, edited by Richard Kirwan and Sophie Mullins, investigates an undercxplored yet important facet of early modern book production. Bringing together 19 detailed case studies, this volume considers and reconstructs the characteristics of specialist book production in the early modern period. In particular it explores the motives that led to specialisation ranging from the desire for profit on the part of risk-taking, entrepreneurial individuals or family firms to the more propagandist or missionising aims of corporate groups who subsidised production, often without regard for profit. The book also explores the economic and personal pressures and perils that accompanied specialist production, which was often a risk-laden enterprise that could end in financial and social ruin. Book jacket.

Contents:

Tabloid values : on the trail of Europe's first news hound / Andrew Pettegree

The changing landscape of the competitive Nuremberg print trade : the rise and fall of Paulus Furst (1608-1666) / John Roger Paas

Networks of printers and the dissemination of news : the case of Milan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Massimo Petta

New books for a new reading public : Frankfurt "Melusine" editions from the press of Gülfferich, Han and Heirs / Ursula Rautenberg

Exotic knowledge as commodity : De Bry's Historia Indiae Orientalis / Isabella Matauschek

The unexpected success of a Spanish anatomy book : Juan de Valverde y Amusco's "Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano" (Rome, 1556), and its many later editions / Bjorn Okholm Skaarup

Poetic gymnasium and bibliographical maze : publishing Petrarch in Renaissance Venice / Neil Harris

Poor man's music? : the production of song pamphlets and broadsheets in sixteenth-century Augsburg / Amelie Roper

Printed polyphonic choirbooks for the Spanish market / Iain Fenlon

Publishing military books in the Low Countries and in Italy in the early seventeenth century / Nina Lamal

The Italian job : John Wolfe, Giacamo Castelvetro and printing Pietro Aretina / Kate de Rycker

Early printed book sale catalogues from Seville : the extension of the European book market into Mexico (1680-1689) / Pedro Rueda Ramirez and Lluís Agustí Ruiz

Printers of the Greek classics and market distribution in the sixteenth century : the case of France and the Low Countries / Natasha Constantinidou

Books in foreign languages : publishing in the Netherlands, 1500-1800 / Rémi Mathis and Marie-Alice Mathis

Tutor to Prince Henry : Adam Newton and an international court in the making / David McKitterick

"Quod exemplaria vera habeant et correcta" : concerning the distribution and purpose of the pecia system / Nikolaus Weichselbaumer

Profit, patronage and the cultural politics of music printing in eighteenth-century Italy : the family and finances of Giuseppe Antonio Silvani / Huub van der Linden

A unique seventeenth century Rusyn catechism and the Jesuit connection / Paul Shore

European books for the Ottoman market / Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9004288104

9789004288102

OCLC:

899707289

Publisher Number:

99963873727