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The book trade in the Italian Renaissance [electronic resource] / by Angela Nuovo ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nuovo, Angela.
- Series:
- Library of the written word ; 26.
- Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 20.
- Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; v. 26
- The handpress world ; v. 20
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Book industries and trade--Italy--History--16th century.
- Book industries and trade.
- Book industries and trade--Italy--History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 474 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 practices while developing new mechanisms in response to political and religious realities. Approaching the book trade from the perspective of its publishers and booksellers, this archive-based account ranges across family ambitions and warehouse fires to publishers' petitions and convivial bookshop conversation. In the process it constructs a nuanced picture of trading networks, production, and the distribution and sale of printed books, a profitable but capricious commodity. Originally published in Italian as Il commercio librario nell’Italia del Rinascimento (Milan: Franco Angeli, 1998; second, revised edition, 2003), this present English translation has not only been updated but has also been deeply revised and augmented.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-20849-6
- OCLC:
- 851431270
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004208490 DOI
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