Buying and Selling: The Business of Books in Early Modern Europe

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-34032-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 72, 560 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1066 g

Reihe: Library of the Written Word

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Graheli, Shanti

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Buchgeschichte, Bibliotheksgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Buchhandel
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures and Tables
Notes on contributors

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

Part 1 Debt Economies and Bookselling Risks

2 Venture Capital and Debt Economy in Early Printing Culture—the Case of Michael Wenssler
Lucas Burkart

3 Venetian Incunabula for Florentine Bookshops (ca. 1473–1483)
Lorenz Boeninger

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

5 Privilege, Print and Profit: The Economy of Printing Privileges in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic
Marius Buning

Part 2 Day to Day Practices of Book Buying and Selling

6 ‘Doubt Not to Buy This Pretie Booke/ the Price Is Not So Deare’: The Business of Browsing in Early Modern Bookshops
Philip Tromans

7 Printing for the Pilgrims: Krakow Seventeenth-Century Guidebooks
Justyna Kilianczyk-Zieba

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 Merchant-Publishing in Sixteenth-Century Lyon
Jamie Cumby

10 Editing the 1543’s 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 The Bookshop of Luciano Pasini, Bookseller and Publisher between Perugia and Venice in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century
Natale Vacalebre

17 New Perspectives on the Augsburg Book Trade: Georg Willer’s Music Catalogue of 1622
Amelie Roper

18 A Protestant Bookseller in Seventeenth-Century France: Daniel Delerpinière’s Saumur Bookshop, 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 Denunciation and Humiliation’: Purchases of Books to Religious Communities in Colonial Mexico
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
John Sibbald

24 Lost in Transaction: ‘Discollecting’ Incunabula in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Falk Eisermann

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Shanti Graheli, Ph.D. (2015), University of St Andrews, is LKAS Research Fellow in Comparative Literature and Translation at the University of Glasgow.