Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650-1750

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TitlePublishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650-1750
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2024
AuthorsHansen, Ann-Marie, Weduwen, Arthur der
Series TitleLibrary of the Written Word
Volume126
Number of Pages320 pp.
PublisherBrill
CityLeiden, Netherlands
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9789004691933
Abstract

This edited volume explores the development of the European book world between 1650 and 1750, concentrating on changes in publishing strategies, practices of censorship, the circulation of second-hand books and the building of libraries. Its essays discuss this critical, but much neglected period of print history through case studies from Spain, Italy, France, the Holy Roman Empire, Britain and the Netherlands. Ranging from the posthumous publication of Galileo to the regulation of the book auction market, this volume demonstrates that the century between 1650 and 1750 was a transformative period for the history of the printed book
Annotation

Contents
Part 1. Publishing Strategies
Practitioners, Pills and the Press: Publishing Strategies in the Dutch Medical Market (c.1660-c.1770) / Jeroen Salman -- School Books, Public Education and the State of Literacy in Early Modern Catalonia / Xevi Camprubí -- The Cometary Apparition of 1743/44: Periodical Journals in the Holy Roman Empire and Their Communicative Role / Doris Gruber

Part 2. Censorship and Evasion
A Peculiar Case of Entrepreneurial Bravery: The First Edition of Galileo Galilei's Collected Works in the Context of Mid-seventeenth-century -- Publishing and Censorship / Leonardo Anatrini -- Persecuted in the Spanish Colonies: Inquisitorial Censorship and the Circulation of Medical and Scientific Books in New Spain and New Granada / Alberto José Campillo Pardo and Idalia García -- The Troubles of a Protestant Bookseller in a Catholic Market: The Nuremberg Bookseller Johann Friedrich Rüdiger (1686-1751) and the Prague Book Trade / Mona Garloff -- Disclosing False Imprints: a New Look at Eighteenth-Century French -- Printed Production / Dominique Varry

Part 3. Auctions, Collectors and Catalogues
Early Modern English Parish Libraries: Collecting and Collections in the Francis Trigge Chained Library and the Gorton Chest Parish Library / Jessica G. Purdy -- 'Libri Anglici': English Books in Danish and Dutch Library Collections, c.1650-1720 / Hanna de Lange -- The Government at Auction: Urban Policy and the Market for Books in Eighteenth-Century Lübeck / Philippe Bernhard Schmid -- Philosophie or Commerce?: Classification Systems in Eighteenth-Century French Private Library Catalogues / Helwi Blom -- Sir Hans Sloane's Collection of Books and Manuscripts: an Enlightenment Library? / Alexandra Ortolja-Baird.

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