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

Author:   Ann-Marie Hansen ,  Arthur Weduwen
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   126
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9789004691933


Pages:   326
Publication Date:   22 May 2024
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Author:   Ann-Marie Hansen ,  Arthur Weduwen
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   126
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004691933


ISBN 10:   9004691936
Pages:   326
Publication Date:   22 May 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Preface List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors PART 1: Publishing Strategies 1 Practitioners, Pills and the Press: Publishing Strategies in the Dutch Medical Market (c.1660–c.1770)  Jeroen Salman 2 School Books, Public Education and the State of Literacy in Early Modern Catalonia  Xevi Camprubí 3 The Cometary Apparition of 1743/44: Periodical Journals in the Holy Roman Empire and Their Communicative Role  Doris Gruber Part 2: Censorship and Evasion 4 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 5 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 6 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 7 Disclosing False Imprints: a New Look at Eighteenth-Century French Printed Production  Dominique Varry Part 3: Auctions, Collectors and Catalogues 8 Early Modern English Parish Libraries: Collecting and Collections in the Francis Trigge Chained Library and the Gorton Chest Parish Library  Jessica G. Purdy 9 ‘Libri Anglici’: English Books in Danish and Dutch Library Collections, c.1650–1720  Hanna de Lange 10 The Government at Auction: Urban Policy and the Market for Books in Eighteenth-Century Lübeck  Philippe Bernhard Schmid 11 Philosophie or Commerce? Classification Systems in Eighteenth-Century French Private Library Catalogues  Helwi Blom 12 Sir Hans Sloane’s Collection of Books and Manuscripts: an Enlightenment Library?  Alexandra Ortolja-Baird Index

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“One of the most influential early modern book history series currently available.” Alexander S. Wilkinson, University College Dublin. In: SHARP News, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Autumn 2014), p. 10. “One of the most outstanding series in the field of European book history.” Mart van Duijn, Leiden University Libraries. In: Quaerendo, Vol. 44, No. 3 (2014).


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Ann-Marie Hansen, PhD (McGill University), is Project Manager of ‘Unlocking the Fagel Collection’ at the Library of Trinity College Dublin. She has published on eighteenth-century editorial and publishing culture, evidence of early modern reading, and heritage book collections and their documentation. Arthur der Weduwen is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Co-Director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue project. He specialises in the history of communication, printing and the book trade, early modern politics, and the history of the Netherlands. He is the author of six monographs and several edited volumes in these fields.

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