Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France 1470-1600

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-32413-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 87, 902 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 1497 g

Reihe: Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World

Winner of the 2021 SCSC Bainton Prize for Reference Works

Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France 1470–1600 is the first comprehensive guide to the Renaissance French book trade outside of Paris and Lyon. This volume presents short biographies for over 2700 booksellers, printers and bookbinders – over sixty of whom are identified as fictitious.

The biographies are accompanied wherever possible by the details of commercial partnerships, the type used by printers and reproductions of over a hundred signatures. The book provides the details of over six hundred women who either married into the trade or were independently active. The introductory essay analyses the nature, evolution and geographic dispersion of the members of the trade. It is an indispensable tool for understanding the French Renaissance book world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walsby, Malcolm

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Unternehmensgeschichte, Einzelne Branchen und Unternehmer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

1 French Booksellers and Printers and the Provincial Book Trade during the Renaissance

Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France

A Diverse Group

Women in the Provincial Book Trade

Commercial Relationships

Fictitious Printers and Booksellers

2 A Guide to the Dictionary

The Sources

3 Table of Abbreviations and Bibliography

4 Booksellers, Printers, and Bookbinders of Provincial France, 1470–1600

Index of Booksellers and Printers Falsely Indicated as Being Active in Provincial France during the Sixteenth Century

Index of Family Trees

Index Cognominum

Index of Women Booksellers and Printers Active Independently

Index of Women Named as Having Married Male Booksellers and Printers

Index of Illustrations

Über Autor(innen)

Malcolm Walsby is professor of book history at Enssib/University of Lyon, director of the Gabriel Naudé research centre, and co-founder of the Universal Short Title Catalogue. He has published extensively on the early modern European book world.