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Title A maturing market : the Iberian book world in the first half of the seventeenth century / edited by Alexander S. Wilkinson, Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 285 pages) : illustrations
Series Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; volume 59. The handpress world ; volume 44
Library of the written word ; 59.
Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 44.
Contents Part 1. Surveys of the book trade -- A maturing market : the Iberian book world in the first half of the seventeenth century / Alexander S. Wilkinson -- Printing in Antwerp in the early seventeenth century and its connections with the Iberian world / César Manrique Figueroa -- The importation of books into New Spain during the seventeenth century / Idalia García -- Women and the Iberian book trade, 1472-1650 / Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo -- Part 2. Addressing the reader in golden-age Spain -- The book-reader relationship in golden-age Spain : reading practices and the publishing industry in Don Quixote / Sarah Malfatti -- 'Reasons of state for any author' : common sense, translation, and the international republic of letters / José María Pérez Fernández -- Writing literature for publication, 1605-1637 / Esther Villegas de la Torre -- Part 3. The stage in print -- Printed plays in early modern Spain / Don Cruickshank -- Cervantes's Ocho comedias : from the pen to the print-shop / John O'Neill -- Printing licenses and the trade in fiction in Spain in the first half of the seventeenth century / Manuel Calderón Calderón -- Part 4. Market specialisms : chivalric literature, medicine and the news -- Printing books of chivalry in Portugal at the beginning of the seventeenth century / Aurelio Vargas Díaz-Toledo -- Medical publishing in Portugal in the first half of the seventeenth century : a good business? / Hervé Baudry -- The golden age of the single event printed newsletter : relaciones de sucesos, 1601-1650 / Henry Ettinghausen -- 'Things worthy of being known' : the reception and consumption of the press in Catalonia during the first half of the seventeenth century / Ricard Expósito Amagat
Summary Within just a generation or two of its arrival, print had become a ubiquitous and spirited part of Spain and Portugal's urban cultures. It serviced an ever-expanding reading public, as well as many and varied practical quotidian needs. Its impact on society was multi-dimensional and complex, and its social reach far broader than the civic or ecclesiastical elites were ever to be entirely comfortable with. This cross-disciplinary volume of essays focuses on the maturing marketplace for print in the first half of the seventeenth century, shedding new light on some important transformations, with authors and publishers seizing opportunities available to them - negotiating the regulatory efforts of the censors, and scrambling to reconfigure their relationship with their readers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Book industries and trade -- Spain -- History -- 17th century
Book industries and trade -- Portugal -- History -- 17th century
Books and reading -- Spain -- History -- 17th century
Books and reading -- Portugal -- History -- 17th century
Publishers and publishing -- Spain -- History -- 17th century
Publishers and publishing -- Portugal -- History -- 17th century
Authors and publishers -- Spain -- History -- 17th century
Authors and publishers -- Portugal -- History -- 17th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Sales & Selling -- General.
Authors and publishers
Book industries and trade
Books and reading
Publishers and publishing
Portugal
Spain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Wilkinson, Alexander S., 1975- editor.
Ulla Lorenzo, Alejandra, editor
LC no. 2017049254
ISBN 9789004340381
9004340386