Specialist markets in the early modern book world / edited by Richard Kirwan, Sophie Mullins.

Other author Kirwan, Richard.
Other author Mullins, Sophie.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
Descriptionxix, 414 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Book industries and trade--Europe. --History. --16th century.
Book industries and trade--Europe. --History. --17th century.
Publishers and publishing--Europe. --History. --16th century.
Publishers and publishing--Europe. --History. --17th century.
Booksellers and bookselling--Europe. --History. --16th century.
Booksellers and bookselling--Europe. --History. --17th century.
Printing--Europe. --History. --16th century.
Printing--Europe. --History. --17th century.
Books--Europe. --History. --1450-1600.
Books--Europe. --History. --17th century.

SeriesLibrary of the written word, 1874-4834 ; volume 40. The handpress world ; volume 31
Contents Tabloid values : on the trail of Europe's first news hound / Andrew Pettegree -- The changing landscape of the competitive Nuremberg print trade : the rise and fall of Paulus Furst (1608-1666) / John Roger Paas -- Networks of printers and the dissemination of news : the case of Milan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Massimo Petta -- New books for a new reading public : Frankfurt "Melusine" editions from the press of Gülfferich, Han and Heirs / Ursula Rautenberg -- Exotic knowledge as commodity : De Bry's Historia Indiae Orientalis / Isabella Matauschek -- The unexpected success of a Spanish anatomy book : Juan de Valverde y Amusco's "Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano" (Rome, 1556), and its many later editions / Bjorn Okholm Skaarup -- Poetic gymnasium and bibliographical maze : publishing Petrarch in Renaissance Venice / Neil Harris -- Poor man's music? : the production of song pamphlets and broadsheets in sixteenth-century Augsburg / Amelie Roper -- Printed polyphonic choirbooks for the Spanish market / Iain Fenlon -- Publishing military books in the Low Countries and in Italy in the early seventeenth century / Nina Lamal -- The Italian job : John Wolfe, Giacamo Castelvetro and printing Pietro Aretina / Kate de Rycker -- Early printed book sale catalogues from Seville : the extension of the European book market into Mexico (1680-1689) / Pedro Rueda Ramirez and Lluís Agustí Ruiz -- Printers of the Greek classics and market distribution in the sixteenth century : the case of France and the Low Countries / Natasha Constantinidou -- Books in foreign languages : publishing in the Netherlands, 1500-1800 / Rémi Mathis and Marie-Alice Mathis -- Tutor to Prince Henry : Adam Newton and an international court in the making / David McKitterick -- "Quod exemplaria vera habeant et correcta" : concerning the distribution and purpose of the pecia system / Nikolaus Weichselbaumer -- Profit, patronage and the cultural politics of music printing in eighteenth-century Italy : the family and finances of Giuseppe Antonio Silvani / Huub van der Linden -- A unique seventeenth century Rusyn catechism and the Jesuit connection / Paul Shore -- European books for the Ottoman market / Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik.
General noteBased on a conference with the same title (Specialist markets in the early modern book world) held in June 2012 at the University of St. Andrews --acknowledgements, page ix.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2015007186
ISBN9789004288102 (hardback : alk. paper)

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