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1 online resource |
| Series |
Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; volume 72. The handpress world ; volume 55 |
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Library of the written word. Handpress world.
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| Contents |
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 -- Venture Capital and Debt Economy in Early Printing Culture-the Case of Michael Wenssler / Lucas Burkart -- Venetian Incunabula for Florentine Bookshops (ca. 1473-1483) / Lorenz Boeninger -- Book Prices in Early Modern Europe: An Economic Perspective / Jeremiah Dittmar -- 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 -- 'Doubt Not to Buy This Pretie Booke, the Price Is Not So Deare': The Business of Browsing in Early Modern Bookshops / Philip Tromans -- Printing for the Pilgrims: Krakow Seventeenth-Century Guidebooks / Justyna Kilianczyk-Zieba -- Book Lotteries as Sale Events for Slow-Sellers: The Case of Amsterdam in the Late Eighteenth Century / Daniel Bellingradt -- Part 3. Selling Strategies -- Neither Scholar Nor Printer: Luxembourg de Gabiano and Merchant-Publishing in Sixteenth-Century Lyon / Jamie Cumby -- Editing the 1543's Thesaurus Linguae Latinae: Robert Estienne's Dream and Nightmare / Martine Furno -- 'Large Volumes That Are Bought by Few'-Printing and Selling Postils in Early-Modern Poland / Magdalena Komorowska -- Buying and Selling in One Trip: Book Barter in Times of Trouble for Francesco Ciotti's Printing and Bookselling House / Domenico Ciccarello -- The State of Scottish Bookselling circa 1800 / Vivienne Dunstan -- Cashing in on Counterfeits: Fraud in the Reformation Print Industry / Drew Thomas -- Part 4. List and Inventories -- 'Men and Book under Watch': the Brussels' Book Market in the Mid-Sixteenth Century through the Inquisitorial Archives / Renaud Adam -- The Bookshop of Luciano Pasini, Bookseller and Publisher between Perugia and Venice in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century / Natale Vacalebre -- New Perspectives on the Augsburg Book Trade: Georg Willer's Music Catalogue of 1622 / Amelie Roper -- A Protestant Bookseller in Seventeenth-Century France: Daniel Delerpiniere's Saumur Bookshop, 1661 / Jean-Paul Pittion -- Part 5. New Markets -- Turning News into a Business: The Commerce of Early Newspaper Publishing / Jan Hillgartner -- Booksellers, Newspaper Advertisements and a National Market for Print in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic / Arthur der Weduwen -- 'Without Denunciation and Humiliation': Purchases of Books to Religious Communities in Colonial Mexico / Idalia Garcia -- Advertising and Selling in Cromwellian Newsbooks / Jason McElligott -- Part 6. Modern Book Market -- Book Bitch to the Rich-the Strife and Times of the Revd. Dr. Thomas Frognall Dibdin / John Sibbald -- Lost in Transaction: 'Discollecting' Incunabula in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Falk Eisermann |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 20, 2019) |
| Subject |
Book industries and trade -- Europe -- History
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Book industries and trade -- Economic aspects -- Europe
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Booksellers and bookselling -- Europe -- History
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Publishers and publishing -- Europe -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Sales & Selling -- General.
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Book industries and trade -- Economic aspects
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Book industries and trade
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Booksellers and bookselling
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Publishers and publishing
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Graheli, Shanti, editor.
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| LC no. |
2019006347 |
| ISBN |
9004340394 |
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9789004340398 |
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