Buying and selling : the business of books in early modern Europe / edited by Shanti Graheli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Graheli, Shanti, editor.

Series:

Library of the written word ; volume 72.

Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; volume 72. The handpress world ; volume 55

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Book industries and trade--Europe--History.

Book industries and trade.

Book industries and trade--Economic aspects--Europe.

Book industries and trade--Economic aspects.

Publishers and publishing.

History.

Booksellers and bookselling.

Europe.

Booksellers and bookselling--Europe--History.

Publishers and publishing--Europe--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 559 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

Buying and Selling' explores the many facets of the business of books across and beyond Europe, adopting the viewpoints of printers, publishers, booksellers, and readers. Essays by twenty-five scholars from a range of disciplines seek to reconstruct the dynamics of the trade through a variety of sources. Through the combined investigation of printed output, documentary evidence, provenance research, and epistolary networks, this volume trails the evolving relationship between readers and the book trade. In the resulting picture of failure and success, balanced precariously between debt-economies, sale strategies and uncertain profit, customers stand out as the real winners.

Contents:

1. How to Lose Money in the Business of Books: Commercial Strategies in the First Age of Print / Andrew Pettegree, Shanti Graheli

Part 1. Debt Economies and Bookselling Risks

2. Early Book Printing and Venture Capital in the Age of Debt: the Case of Michael Wenssler's Basel Printing Shop (1472-1491) / Lucas Burkart

3. Venetian Incunabula for Florentine Bookshops (ca. 1473-1483) / Lorenz Bïninger

4. Book Prices in Early Modern Europe: An Economic Perspective / Jeremiah Dittmar

5. Privileging the Common Good: the Moral Economy of Printing Privileges in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic / Marius Buning

Part 2. Day to Day Practices of Book Buying and Selling

6. The Business of Browsing in Early Modern Bookshops / Philip Tromans

7. Printing for the Pilgrims: Krakow Seventeenth-Century Guidebooks / Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba

8. Book Lotteries as Sale Events for Slow-Sellers: The Case of Amsterdam in the Late Eighteenth Century / Daniel Bellingradt

Part 3. Selling Strategies

9. Neither Scholar Nor Printer: Luxembourg de Gabiano and the Financial Structure of Merchant-Publishing in Sixteenth-Century Lyon / Jamie Cumby

10. Editing the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae: Robert Estienne's Dream and Nightmare / Martine Furno

11. 'Large Volumes That Are Bought by Few':Printing and Selling Postils in Early-Modern Poland / Magdalena Komorowska

12. Buying and Selling in One Trip: Book Barter in Times of Trouble for Francesco Ciotti's Printing and Bookselling House / Domenico Ciccarello

13. The State of Scottish Bookselling circa 1800 / Vivienne Dunstan

14. Cashing in on Counterfeits: Fraud in the Reformation Print Industry / Drew Thomas

Part 4. List and Inventories

15. 'Men and Book under Watch': the Brussels' Book Market in the Mid-Sixteenth Century through the Inquisitorial Archives / Renaud Adam

16. 'Beautiful Intellects Should not Hide': The Bookshop of Luciano Pasini, Bookseller and Publisher between Perugia and Venice in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century / Natale Vacalebre

17. Early Modern Shelf Lives: the Context and Content of Georg Willer's Music Stock Catalogue of 1622 / Amelie Roper

18. Religion, Learning and Commerce: Daniel Delerpinière, a Protestant Bookseller in Saumur, 1661 / Jean-Paul Pittion

Part 5. New Markets

19. Turning News into a Business: The Commerce of Early Newspaper Publishing / Jan Hillgärtner

20. Booksellers, Newspaper Advertisements and a National Market for Print in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic / Arthur der Weduwen

21. 'Without Being Denounced or Humiliated': the Purchase of Books to Religious Communities in New Spain / Idalia Garcia

22. Advertising and Selling in Cromwellian Newsbooks / Jason McElligott

Part 6. Modern Book Market

23. Book Bitch to the Rich-the Strife and Times of the Revd. Dr. Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847) / John A. Sibbald

24. Lost in Transaction: 'Discollecting' Incunabula in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Falk Eisermann.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Buying and selling

ISBN:

9789004340329

9004340327

OCLC:

1066178035

Publisher Number:

99980668379