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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453364803321

Autore

Baggerman Arianne

Titolo

Publishing policies and family strategies : the fortunes of a Dutch publishing house in the 18th and early 19th centuries / / by Arianne Baggerman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2013

ISBN

90-04-25795-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (572 p.)

Collana

Library of the written word The handpress world ; volume 24, , 1874-4834 ; ; v. 32.

Disciplina

338.761070509492

Soggetti

Publishers and publishing - Netherlands

Book industries and trade - Netherlands - History - 18th century

Book industries and trade - Netherlands - History - 19th century

Books and reading - Netherlands - History - 18th century

Books and reading - Netherlands - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1. Destined for Each Other -- 2. Moving Up in the World -- 3. A Bookseller with ‘a Few Friends’ -- 4. The Pubishing Trade in the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century -- 5. From Reader to Publisher, the Third Blussé Generation -- 6. A Necrology of Knowledge, Culture and Folly -- Epilogue -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Bibliography -- Index of Names.

Sommario/riassunto

This study analyses the development of the Dutch publishers and booksellers firm Blussé in connection with the history of the Blussé family between 1745 and 1830. The book offers new insight in the organization of the book trade, the theory and practice of copyright, competition and cooperation among publishers, book prices and print runs, including advertising and marketing. The history of the company is linked with that of the family, using letters and other autobiographical writings. Education, marriage policies, reading practices are among the subjects studied. Within the context of cultural developments, the influence of the Enlightenment, and the political



upheavals in the period in the Netherlands, this book is both a detailed book history and a broadly based study of cultural change in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.