Buying and selling: the business of books in early modern Europe
In: Library of the written word volume 72
In: Library of the written word - the handpress world 72
In: European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2018-II, ISBN: 9789004353305
In: The handpress world volume 55
Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Editorial Conventions -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- How to Lose Money in the Business of Books: Commercial Strategies in the First Age of Print /Andrew Pettegree and Shanti Graheli -- Debt Economies and Bookselling Risks -- Early Book Printing and Venture Capital in the Age of Debt: the Case of Michel Wenssler's Basel Printing Shop (1472–1491) /Lucas Burkart -- Venetian Incunabula for Florentine Bookshops (ca. 1473–1483) /Lorenz Böninger -- Book Prices in Early Modern Europe: an Economic Perspective /Jeremiah Dittmar -- Privileging the Common Good: the Moral Economy of Printing Privileges in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic /Marius Buning -- Day to Day Practices of Book Buying and Selling -- The Business of Browsing in Early Modern English Bookshops /Philip Tromans -- Printing for the Pilgrims: Krakow Seventeenth-Century Guidebooks /Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba -- Book Lotteries as Sale Events for Slow-Sellers: the Case of Amsterdam in the Late Eighteenth Century /Daniel Bellingradt -- Selling Strategies -- Neither Scholar nor Printer: Luxembourg de Gabiano and the Financial Structure of Merchant Publishing in Sixteenth-Century Lyon /Jamie Cumby -- Editing the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae: Robert Estienne's Dream and Nightmare /Martine Furno -- 'Large Volumes Bought by the 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 B. Thomas -- List and Inventories -- 'Men and Books under Watch': the Brussels' Book Market in the Mid-Sixteenth Century through the Inquisitorial Archives /Renaud Adam -- 'Beautiful Intellects Should Not Hide': the Bookshop of Luciano Pasini, Bookseller and Publisher between Perugia and Venice in the Late Sixteenth Century /Natale Vacalebre -- Early Modern Shelf Lives: the Context and Content of Georg Willer's Music Stock Catalogue of 1622 /Amelie Roper -- Religion, Learning and Commerce: Daniel Delerpinière, a Protestant Bookseller in Saumur, 1661 /Jean-Paul Pittion -- New Markets -- Turning News into a Business: the Commerce of Early Newspaper Publishing /Jan Hillgärtner -- Booksellers, Newspaper Advertisements and a National Market for Print in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic /Arthur der Weduwen -- 'Without Being Denounced or Humiliated': the Purchase of Books for Religious Communities in New Spain /Idalia Garcia -- Advertising and Selling in Cromwellian Newsbooks /Jason McElligott -- Modern Book Market -- Book Bitch to the Rich—the Strife and Times of the Revd. Dr. Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776–1847) /John A. Sibbald -- Lost in Transaction: 'Discollecting' Incunabula in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries /Falk Eisermann -- Back Matter -- Modern Authors' Index.