Selling & Collecting Printed Book Sale Catalogues and Private Libraries in Early Modern Europe

• Autres auteurs: Granata, Giovanna (Éditeur intellectuel), Nuovo , Angela (Éditeur intellectuel)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: eum edizioni universita di macerata 2018
• Sujets: Literature & literary studies; distribution; acquisition; printed books; sixteenth century; seventeenth century; Currency; Denarius; Italy; Perugia; Veneto; Venice
• Accès en ligne: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Résumé

Based on the contributions given at a conference held at the University of Cagliari in September 2017, this collection of essays provides an insight into the distribution and acquisition of printed books in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Publishers' and booksellers' catalogues are examined as evidence of the advertising and selling techniques used by agents in the book trade, with a focus on book prices. The role of sixteenth-century private libraries and the growing phenomenon of book collecting are studied within a commercial frame. In this context, private collections are investigated as places of preservation rather than consumption, of the works being circulated within the book trade.

Description matérielle

1 electronic resource (317 p.)

ISBN

zenodo.1287069

Accès

Open Access