A Maturing Market : The Iberian Book World in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century.

Intro -- A Maturing Market: The Iberian Book World in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: Surveys of the Book Trade -- 1 A Maturing Market: The Iberian Book World in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century -- 2 Printing in Antwerp in the Early Seventeenth Century and Its Connections with the Iberian World -- 3 The Importation of Books into New Spain During the Seventeenth Century -- 4 Women and the Iberian Book Trade, 1472-1650 -- Part 2: Addressing the Reader in Golden-Age Spain -- 5 The Book-Reader Relationship in Golden-Age Spain: Reading Practices and the Publishing Industry in Don Quixote -- 6 'Reasons of State for Any Author': Common Sense, Translation, and the International Republic of Letters -- 7 Writing Literature for Publication, 1605-1637 -- Part 3: The Stage in Print -- 8 Printed Plays in Early Modern Spain -- 9 Cervantes's Ocho comedias: From the Pen to the Print-Shop -- 10 Printing Licenses and the Trade in Fiction in Spain in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century -- Part 4: Market Specialisms: Chivalric Literature, Medicine and the News -- 11 Printing Books of Chivalry in Portugal at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century -- 12 Medical Publishing in Portugal in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century: A Good Business? -- 13 The Golden Age of the Single Event Printed Newsletter: Relaciones de sucesos, 1601-1650 -- 14 'Things Worthy of Being Known': The Reception and Consumption of the Press in Catalonia During the First Half of the Seventeenth Century -- Index.

A Maturing Market explores the Iberian book trade in the first half of the seventeenth century. It brings together contributions from leading specialists in the field, shedding new light on significant transformations in the industry.

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