Early Modern Publishers : Identities and Strategies in the Book Trade /

Early Modern Publishers : Identities and Strategies in the Book Trade /

Publishers play an indisputably important part in book history, but cover such wide areas of activity that they are rarely given a formal definition. This volume seeks to place the publisher at the heart of the early modern book trade. It examines their identities and careers, the business strategie...

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Other Authors: Cullen, Barnaby (Editor), Maclean, Ian (Editor), Weduwen, Arthur der (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025
Library of the Written Word ; 138.

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Book industries and trade > Europe > History.
Communication in learning and scholarship > Europe > History.
Publishers and publishing > Europe > History.

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Call Number: Z291.3

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Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 Introduction: Early Modern Publishers
  • Ian Maclean
  • Part 1: Authors, Translators, Patrons and Institutions as Publishers
  • 2 King, Bishop, Professor and Postmaster: The Early Modern Swedish Publisher
  • Arthur der Weduwen and Barnaby Cullen
  • 3 Olaus Magnus as Publisher: An Exiled Swedish Archbishop in Rome
  • Vigdis Andrea Baugstø Evang
  • 4 Strategies of Paratexts: Polish-Speaking Königsberg Publishers (c.1540-1575) Communicating with Their Readers
  • Wojciech Kordyzon
  • 5 An Institutional Collective Publisher? Geneva's Company of Pastors Exploiting Printing (c.1620-c.1685)
  • Hadrien Dami
  • 6 Publishing Books by Subscription: The Contribution to Its Development by Authors, the Universities and Booksellers in Seventeenth-Century England
  • John A. Sibbald
  • Part 2: Publishers and Commercial Strategies
  • 7 Publishing an Early Modern Best Seller: Jean du Pré and the French Vitae patrum (1486-1487)
  • Matteo Colombo
  • 8 Necessary and Useful Things: Hernando Colón, the Bindoni Family and the Production of Popular Books in Sixteenth-Century Venice
  • Natale Vacalebre
  • Part 3: Confessional Identities, Economic Considerations
  • 9 'Blawius paratissimus est excudere Niciana omnia'
  • Gian Vittorio Rossi's Pinacotheca and the Collaborative Navigation of the Interconfessional Early Modern Book Trade
  • Jennifer K. Nelson
  • 10 'Popish Books and Popish Knacks': The Evolving Publishing Career of James Thompson, 1650-1678
  • Chelsea Reutcke
  • 11 For Economic Profit or the Jansenist Cause?
  • How Eugène-Henri Fricx and Arnauld de Brigode Managed Their Publishing Roles during the Jansenist Controversy (1680-1703)
  • Dieter Cammaerts
  • 12 The Protestant Merchants Who Kept Catholic Publishing Alive: Publishing and Distribution Strategy at the Officina Plantiniana
  • Elise Watson
  • 13 'I Am Not Afraid-I Have a Printing Press at My Disposal': Aspects of Hebrew Printing and Publishing in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam
  • Heide Warncke
  • Part 4: Political Identities, Economic Considerations
  • 14 Thomas Basset, Publisher of Locke and Hobbes: A Life and Death on Fleet Street
  • Geoff Kemp
  • 15 Champions of 'The Great English Third Estate'? The Evolving Output of English Trade Publishers, 1680-1700
  • Basil Bowdler
  • 16 Politics behind Publishing: The Publication of French Revolutionary Books for the Dublin Market, 1789-1794
  • Maria Zukovs
  • Part 5: Rivalries and Controversy
  • 17 A Bitter Rivalry: Parrino, Bulifon and the Race to Publish a History of Naples
  • Laura Incollingo
  • 18 Johann Hermann Widerhold (1635-1683), International Publishing Rivalries and the Limits of the Genevan Book Trade in the Late Seventeenth Century
  • Zachary Brookman
  • 19 Negotiating Practice and Identity through Nachdruck: Publishers and Unauthorised Print in the German Print World (1765-1835)
  • Isabelle Riepe
  • Part 6: Profiles of the English Publisher, 1580-1750
  • 20 The Poor versus the Patents: Contextualising John Danter's Reputation through the Lens of the Patent-Less Poor
  • Michelle Michel
  • 21 Behold, a White Horse in St Paul's Churchyard: Arthur Johnson and the Distribution of Literature in Early Seventeenth-Century London
  • Andreas P. Bassett
  • 22 Women Stationers at the Temple
  • Uncovering the Presence of Women in the Book Trade at the Honourable Societies of the Middle Temple and the Inner Temple
  • Barnaby Bryan and Renae Satterley
  • 23 The English Provincial Publisher, 1695-1750: Beyond the Local Newspaper
  • James McCall
  • Afterword: O, Where Are the Early Modern Publishers for Today?
  • Jeff Jarvis
  • Index.