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Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Library of the Written Word SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (434 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004290228
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book WorldDDC classification:
  • 381/.4500209409031
LOC classification:
  • Z291.3 .S643 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Risks, Rewards and Perils of Specialisation -- PART 1: High Risk Speculation: The Cultivation of New Markets and Tastes -- 1: Tabloid Values: On the Trail of Europe's First News Hound -- 2: The Changing Landscape of the Competitive Nuremberg Print Trade: The Rise and Fall of Paulus Fürst (1608-1666) -- 3: Networks of Printers and the Dissemination of News: The Case of Milan in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- 4: New Books for a New Reading Public: Frankfurt "Melusine" Editions from the Press of Gülfferich, Han and Heirs -- 5: Exotic Knowledge as Commodity: De Bry's Historia Indiae Orientalis -- 6: The Unexpected Success of a Spanish Anatomy Book: Juan Valverde de Amusco's Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano (Rome, 1556), and its Many Later Editions -- PART 2: Demand and Supply: The Satisfaction of Existing Appetites -- 7: Poetic Gymnasium and Bibliographical Maze: Publishing Petrarch in Renaissance Venice -- 8: Poor Man's Music? The Production of Song Pamphlets and Broadsheets in Sixteenth-Century Augsburg -- 9: Printed Polyphonic Choirbooks for the Spanish Market -- 10: Publishing Military Books in the Low Countries and in Italy in the Early Seventeenth Century -- 11: The Italian Job: John Wolfe, Giacomo Castelvetro and Printing Pietro Aretino -- 12: Early Printed Book Sale Catalogues from Seville: The Extension of the European Book Market into Mexico (1680-1689) -- PART 3: 'Print On-Demand': Reader-led Specialisation -- 13: Printers of the Greek Classics and Market Distribution in the Sixteenth Century: The Case of France and the Low Countries -- 14: Books in Foreign Languages: Publishing in the Netherlands, 1500-1800.
15: Tutor to Prince Henry: Adam Newton and an International Court in the Making -- 16: "Quod Exemplaria vera habeant et correcta": Concerning the Distribution and Purpose of the Pecia System -- 17: Profit, Patronage and the Cultural Politics of Music Printing in Eighteenth-Century Italy: The Family and Finances of Giuseppe Antonio Silvani -- PART 4: 'Not For Profit' Publication: Subsidised Specialisation -- 18: A Unique Seventeenth Century Rusyn Catechism and the Jesuit Connection -- 19: European Books for the Ottoman Market -- Index.
Summary: Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World brings together a diverse range of case studies to reconstruct the characteristics of specialist book production in the early modern period.
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Intro -- Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Risks, Rewards and Perils of Specialisation -- PART 1: High Risk Speculation: The Cultivation of New Markets and Tastes -- 1: Tabloid Values: On the Trail of Europe's First News Hound -- 2: The Changing Landscape of the Competitive Nuremberg Print Trade: The Rise and Fall of Paulus Fürst (1608-1666) -- 3: Networks of Printers and the Dissemination of News: The Case of Milan in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- 4: New Books for a New Reading Public: Frankfurt "Melusine" Editions from the Press of Gülfferich, Han and Heirs -- 5: Exotic Knowledge as Commodity: De Bry's Historia Indiae Orientalis -- 6: The Unexpected Success of a Spanish Anatomy Book: Juan Valverde de Amusco's Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano (Rome, 1556), and its Many Later Editions -- PART 2: Demand and Supply: The Satisfaction of Existing Appetites -- 7: Poetic Gymnasium and Bibliographical Maze: Publishing Petrarch in Renaissance Venice -- 8: Poor Man's Music? The Production of Song Pamphlets and Broadsheets in Sixteenth-Century Augsburg -- 9: Printed Polyphonic Choirbooks for the Spanish Market -- 10: Publishing Military Books in the Low Countries and in Italy in the Early Seventeenth Century -- 11: The Italian Job: John Wolfe, Giacomo Castelvetro and Printing Pietro Aretino -- 12: Early Printed Book Sale Catalogues from Seville: The Extension of the European Book Market into Mexico (1680-1689) -- PART 3: 'Print On-Demand': Reader-led Specialisation -- 13: Printers of the Greek Classics and Market Distribution in the Sixteenth Century: The Case of France and the Low Countries -- 14: Books in Foreign Languages: Publishing in the Netherlands, 1500-1800.

15: Tutor to Prince Henry: Adam Newton and an International Court in the Making -- 16: "Quod Exemplaria vera habeant et correcta": Concerning the Distribution and Purpose of the Pecia System -- 17: Profit, Patronage and the Cultural Politics of Music Printing in Eighteenth-Century Italy: The Family and Finances of Giuseppe Antonio Silvani -- PART 4: 'Not For Profit' Publication: Subsidised Specialisation -- 18: A Unique Seventeenth Century Rusyn Catechism and the Jesuit Connection -- 19: European Books for the Ottoman Market -- Index.

Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World brings together a diverse range of case studies to reconstruct the characteristics of specialist book production in the early modern period.

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