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The book trade in the Italian Renaissance [[electronic resource] /] / by Angela Nuovo ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane



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Autore: Nuovo Angela Visualizza persona
Titolo: The book trade in the Italian Renaissance [[electronic resource] /] / by Angela Nuovo ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2013
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: xv, 474 p. : ill
Disciplina: 381/.45002094509031
Soggetto topico: Book industries and trade - Italy - History - 16th century
Book industries and trade - Italy - History
Altri autori: CochraneLydia G  
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: The commercial network of The Company of Venice -- The development of commercial networks -- Press runs -- Warehouses -- Marks and branches -- The book privilege system -- Distribution -- Fairs -- Retail sales : distribution inside and outside of bookshops -- Shop inventories -- Managing a bookshop.
Sommario/riassunto: This work offers the first English-language survey of the book industry in Renaissance Italy. Whereas traditional accounts of the book in the Renaissance celebrate authors and literary achievement, this study examines the nuts and bolts of a rapidly expanding trade that built on existing economic practices while developing new mechanisms in response to political and religious realities. Approaching the book trade from the perspective of its publishers and booksellers, this archive-based account ranges across family ambitions and warehouse fires to publishers' petitions and convivial bookshop conversation. In the process it constructs a nuanced picture of trading networks, production, and the distribution and sale of printed books, a profitable but capricious commodity. Originally published in Italian as Il commercio librario nell’Italia del Rinascimento (Milan: Franco Angeli, 1998; second, revised edition, 2003), this present English translation has not only been updated but has also been deeply revised and augmented.
Titolo autorizzato: The book trade in the Italian Renaissance  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 90-04-20849-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910824591303321
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