Overview

This study analyses the development of the Dutch publishers and booksellers firm Blussé in connection with the history of the Blussé family between 1745 and 1830. The book offers new insight in the organization of the book trade, the theory and practice of copyright, competition and cooperation among publishers, book prices and print runs, including advertising and marketing. The history of the company is linked with that of the family, using letters and other autobiographical writings. Education, marriage policies, reading practices are among the subjects studied. Within the context of cultural developments, the influence of the Enlightenment, and the political upheavals in the period in the Netherlands, this book is both a detailed book history and a broadly based study of cultural change in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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Author:   Arianne Baggerman
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   32
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.075kg
ISBN:  

9789004257948

ISBN 10:   9004257942
Pages:   554
Publication Date:   18 October 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Abbrevations Acknowledgments Introduction From Clutter Beast to Ghost Writer. The Invisible Hand in a Family Archive CHAPTER 1 Destined for Each Other. Making the Acquaintance of Pieter Blussé CHAPTER 2 Moving Up in the World. The Firm of Abraham Blussé & Son, c. 1771 CHAPTER 3 A Bookseller with ‘a Few Friends’. Social Network and Political Engagement CHAPTER 4 The Publishing Trade in the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century CHAPTER 5 From Reader to Publisher, the third Blussé Generation: Building a Family Empire CHAPTER 6 A Necrology of Knowledge, Culture and Folly: the Publisher’s List and the Invisible Hand in the Archive EPILOGUE Appendices Appendix I List of A. Blussé and Son Appendix II Average number of printed copies per genre in the period 1797-1818 Notes/Bibliography Index

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Arianne Baggerman teaches history at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and holds the Tiele chair in the history of the book at the University of Amsterdam. She published about several aspects of book history. She directed a research project on the development of autobiographical writing in the 18th and 19th centuries. She co-authored Child of the Enlightenment: Revolutionary Europe Reflected in a Boyhood Diary (Brill 2009) and co-edited Controlling Time and Shaping the Self (Brill 2011).

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