Early Modern Publishers : Identities and Strategies in the Book Trade (Library of the Written Word - the Handpress World)

Cullen, Barnaby (EDT)/ Maclean, Ian (EDT)/ Weduwen, Arthur (EDT)

Brill（2025/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 628 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004727151

Full Description

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 strategies they adopted for survival, their involvement in the professional, religious, political, and economic conditions in which they found themselves, and the constraints under which they had to operate.

By presenting more than twenty case studies on individual and groups of publishers active in Sweden, Prussia, Switzerland, France, Italy, England, Ireland, Germany and the Low Countries, this volume makes a major contribution to the study of an elusive but essential figure in the history of the early modern book.

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