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A decade ago in the Times Literary Supplement, Roderick Conway Morris claimed that "almost everything that was going to happen in book publishing-from pocket books, instant books and pirated books, to the concept of author's copyright, company mergers, and remainders-occurred during the early days of printing." Ian Maclean's colorful survey of the flourishing learned book trade of the late Renaissance brings this assertion to life. The story he tells covers most of Europe, with Frankfurt and its Fair as the hub of intellectual exchanges among scholars and of commercial dealings among publishers. The three major religious confessions jostled for position there, and this rivalry affected nearly all aspects of learning. Few scholars were exempt from religious or financial pressures. Maclean's chosen example is the literary agent and representative of international Calvinism, Melchior Goldast von Haiminsfeld, whose activities included opportunistic involvement in the political disputes of the day. Maclean surveys the predicament of underfunded authors, the activities of greedy publishing entrepreneurs, the fitful interventions of regimes of censorship and licensing, and the struggles faced by sellers and buyers to achieve their ends in an increasingly overheated market. The story ends with an account of the dramatic decline of the scholarly book trade in the 1620's, and the connivance of humanist scholars in the values of the commercial world through which they aspired to international recognition. Their fate invites comparison with today's writers of learned books, as they too come to terms with new technologies and changing academic environments.

Book history --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Scholarly publishing --- Book industries and trade --- Communication in learning and scholarship --- History --- 094.1 <4> --- 094 "15/16" --- Oude drukken: bibliografie----Europa --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--?"15/16" --- 094.1 <4> Oude drukken: bibliografie----Europa --- book history --- publishers --- trade [function] --- scholars --- church history --- bookselling --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- Academic publishing --- Publishers and publishing --- Communication in scholarship --- Scholarly communication --- Learning and scholarship --- booksellers --- trade [general function] --- booksellers [people]

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L'invention et le développement de l'imprimerie en Europe révolutionnèrent l'accès au texte. La vaste quantité de livres devenus disponibles au cours des dernières décennies du XVe siècle eut un impact profond sur l'ensemble de la société. Un véritable changement de paradigme eut lieu dans la sphère religieuse comme dans le domaine du politique et de la manière de gouverner. Cet essai de synthèse renouvelle la compréhension des enjeux de l'imprimé de la première modernité. A partir des travaux français et internationaux les plus récents et des abondantes recherches de l'auteur, il donne les clefs pour appréhender ce médium en examinant en trois temps le monde de l'imprimé. Cet ouvrage souligne que l'imprimé était d'abord un objet et une marchandise : produit dans les ateliers des imprimeurs, il était commandité, distribué puis vendu dans des échoppes et étals dispersés à travers l'Europe, avant d'être lu et collectionné. La nouvelle technologie se révéla également être un outil au service des pouvoirs traditionnels séculiers et religieux, autant qu'aux mains des mouvements de contestation et d'opposition comme la Réforme. Enfin, les imprimés véhiculaient des textes qui jouèrent un rôle considérable dans la diffusion du savoir, dans les loisirs et divertissements des femmes et des hommes, ainsi que dans la circulation des informations et des polémiques qui animèrent cette période. En présentant le livre et ses enjeux sous un jour nouveau, cette étude cherche à placer l'histoire de l'imprimé au coeur de l'histoire générale des XVe, XVIe et XVIIe siècles.

Book history --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Book industries and trade --- Printing --- History --- Books and reading --- History. --- Influence. --- Western Europe --- Imprimerie --- Livres --- Histoire --- Origines et antécédents. --- Origin and antecedents --- Industrie et commerce --- 094.1 <4> --- 094 "14/16" --- 094.1 <4> Oude drukken: bibliografie----Europa --- Oude drukken: bibliografie----Europa --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Renaissance. Periode 1400-1699 --- Book industries and trade - Europe - History --- Printing - Europe - History --- Origines et antécédents.

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Bibliography --- Book industries and trade --- Books --- Literature --- 09 <082 KIRSOP, WALLACE> --- 094.1 <4> --- 094.1 <94> --- 094.1 <94> Oude drukken: bibliografie----Australië --- Oude drukken: bibliografie----Australië --- 094.1 <4> Oude drukken: bibliografie----Europa --- Oude drukken: bibliografie----Europa --- 09 <082 KIRSOP, WALLACE> Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Feestbundels. Festschriften--KIRSOP, WALLACE --- Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Feestbundels. Festschriften--KIRSOP, WALLACE --- Appraisal of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- History --- History and criticism --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- Book history

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In contrast to traditional Enlightenment studies that focus solely on authors and ideas, Gary Kates' employs a literary lens to offer a wholly original history of the period in Europe from 1699 to 1780. Each chapter is a biography of a book which tells the story of the text from its inception through to the revolutionary era, with wider aspects of the Enlightenment era being revealed through the narrative of the book's publication and reception. Here, Kates joins new approaches to book history with more traditional intellectual history by treating authors, publishers, and readers in a balanced fashion throughout. Using a unique database of 18th-century editions representing 5,000 titles, the book looks at the multifaceted significance of bestsellers from the time. It analyses key works by Voltaire, Adam Smith, Madame de Graffigny, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume and champions the importance of a crucial innovation of the age: the rise of the 'erudite blockbuster', which for the first time in European history, helped to popularize political theory among a large portion of the middling classes. Kates also highlights how, when, and why some of these books were read in the European colonies, as well as incorporating the responses of both ordinary men and women as part of the reception histories that are so integral to the volume.

European literature --- Europe --- History --- Book history --- anno 1500-1799 --- 094.1 <4> --- 094 "17" --- 094:32 --- 930.85.48 --- 930.85.48 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Verlichting; Aufklärung --- Cultuurgeschiedenis: Verlichting; Aufklärung --- 094:32 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Politiek. Staatskunde. Staatswetenschappen --(algemeen) --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Politiek. Staatskunde. Staatswetenschappen --(algemeen) --- 094.1 <4> Oude drukken: bibliografie----Europa --- Oude drukken: bibliografie----Europa --- 094 "17" Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799

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Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World , edited by Richard Kirwan and Sophie Mullins, investigates an underexplored yet important facet of early modern book production. Bringing together 19 detailed case studies, this volume considers and reconstructs the characteristics of specialist book production in the early modern period. In particular it explores the motives that led to specialisation ranging from the desire for profit on the part of risk-taking, entrepreneurial individuals or family firms to the more propagandist or missionising aims of corporate groups who subsidised production, often without regard for profit. The book also explores the economic and personal pressures and perils that accompanied specialist production, which was often a risk-laden enterprise that could end in financial and social ruin.

Book history --- History of Europe --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1400-1499 --- 094.1 <4> --- 655.42 <4> --- Oude drukken: bibliografie----Europa --- Boekhandel--algemeen--Europa --- 094.1 <4> Oude drukken: bibliografie----Europa --- Book industries and trade --- Publishers and publishing --- Booksellers and bookselling --- Printing --- Books --- History --- bookselling --- book history --- reading culture --- Book industries and trade - Europe - History - 16th century --- Book industries and trade - Europe - History - 17th century --- Publishers and publishing - Europe - History - 16th century --- Publishers and publishing - Europe - History - 17th century --- Booksellers and bookselling - Europe - History - 16th century --- Booksellers and bookselling - Europe - History - 17th century --- Printing - Europe - History - 16th century --- Printing - Europe - History - 17th century --- Books - Europe - History - 1450-1600 --- Books - Europe - History - 17th century --- Book sellers and bookselling --- 1500 - 1699