The paper trade in early modern Europe : practices, materials, networks / edited by Daniel Bellingradt and Anna Reynolds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reynolds, Anna (Lecturer), editor.

Bellingradt, Daniel, editor.

Series:

Library of the written word ; Volume 89.

Library of the Written Word ; Volume 89

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paper industry--Europe--History.

Paper industry.

Paper--Europe--History.

Paper.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

"This book attends to the most essential, lucrative, and overlooked business activity of early modern Europe: the trade of paper. Despite the well-known fact that paper was crucial to the success of printing and record-keeping alike, paper remains one of the least studied areas of early modern history. Organised into three sections, 'Hotspots and Trade Routes', 'Usual Dealings', and 'Recycling Economies', the chapters in the collection shed light on the practices, materials, and networks of the paper trade. Altogether, the collection uncovers the actors involved in the networks of paper production, transportation, purchase, and reuse, between the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries and across the central and peripheral papermaking regions of Europe"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface

Daniel Bellingradt and Anna Reynolds

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

1 The Paper Trade in Early Modern Europe: An Introduction

Daniel Bellingradt

part 1: Hotspots and Trade Routes

2 Selling Paper in Early Modern Venice: Paper-retailers and the "Libri da carta bianca"

Anna Gialdini

3 'Unter dem Zeichen des Adlers': Frankfurt as Hub of the Central European Paper Trade in the 16th Century

Megan K. Williams

4 The Paper Supply of a Printing House as a Mirror of the Paper Trade in the Early Modern Low Countries: The Case of Dirk Martens' Workshop

Renaud Adam

5 Juan Tomás Fabario and the Paper Trade in Early Modern Spain or the Supply of Paper as a New Modality of Publishing

Benito Rial Costas

6 Paper Flows through the Danish Sound, 1634-1857

Jan Willem Veluwenkamp

7 Networks of Paper in Late Medieval England

Orietta Da Rold

part 2: Usual Dealings

8 Types and Sources of Paper in Late Medieval Finland: A Case Study of the Paper in Raseborg Castle Scriptorium, ca. 1390-1435

Tapio Salminen.

9 Buying Paper for the Consulate: Insights into the Paper Trade of Lyon, 1450-1525

Jean-Benoît Krumenacker

10 The Usage and Acquisition of Paper in the Jagiellonian Courts, 1490-1507

Krisztina Rábai

11 The Paper Purchases of the Dutch East India Company's Amsterdam Chamber in the Early Eighteenth Century

Frank Birkenholz

12 Stationers, Papetiers and the Supply Networks of a Swiss Publisher: The Sociéte Typographique de Neuchâtel and the Paper Trade 1769-1789

Simon Burrows, Michael Falk, Rachel Hendery, and Katherine McDonough

13 The Paper Trails of Guðbrandur Þorláksson: A Case Study of the Official and Private Paths Used for Purchasing Paper by the Sixteenth-Century Bishop of Hólar, Iceland

Silvia Hufnagel

Part 3: Recycling Economies

14 Material Sensibilities: Writing Paper and Chemistry in the Netherlands and Beyond, ca. 1800

Andreas Weber

15 "Worthy to Be Reserved": Bookbindings and the Waste Paper Trade in Early Modern England and Scotland

Anna Reynolds

Part 4: Epilogue

16 Afterword

Helen Smith

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-42400-8

OCLC:

1250090341

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004424005 DOI