Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France 1470-1600 (Library of the Written Word - the Handpress World)

Walsby, Malcolm

Brill（2020/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 902 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004324138
• DDC分類 381.450020944

Full Description

Winner of the 2021 SCSC Bainton Prize for Reference Works

Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France 1470-1600 is the first comprehensive guide to the Renaissance French book trade outside of Paris and Lyon. This volume presents short biographies for over 2700 booksellers, printers and bookbinders - over sixty of whom are identified as fictitious.

The biographies are accompanied wherever possible by the details of commercial partnerships, the type used by printers and reproductions of over a hundred signatures. The book provides the details of over six hundred women who either married into the trade or were independently active. The introductory essay analyses the nature, evolution and geographic dispersion of the members of the trade. It is an indispensable tool for understanding the French Renaissance book world.

Contents

List of Illustrations

1 French Booksellers and Printers and the Provincial Book Trade during the Renaissance

 Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France

 A Diverse Group

 Women in the Provincial Book Trade

 Commercial Relationships

 Fictitious Printers and Booksellers

2 A Guide to the Dictionary

 The Sources

3 Table of Abbreviations and Bibliography

4 Booksellers, Printers, and Bookbinders of Provincial France, 1470-1600

Index of Booksellers and Printers Falsely Indicated as Being Active in Provincial France during the Sixteenth Century

Index of Family Trees

Index Cognominum

Index of Women Booksellers and Printers Active Independently

Index of Women Named as Having Married Male Booksellers and Printers

Index of Illustrations