Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World
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| Title: | Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World |
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| Description: | Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World, edited by Richard Kirwan and Sophie Mullins, investigates an underexplored yet important facet of early modern book production. Bringing together 19 detailed case studies, this volume considers and reconstructs the characteristics of specialist book production in the early modern period. In particular it explores the motives that led to specialisation ranging from the desire for profit on the part of risk-taking, entrepreneurial individuals or family firms to the more propagandist or missionising aims of corporate groups who subsidised production, often without regard for profit. The book also explores the economic and personal pressures and perils that accompanied specialist production, which was often a risk-laden enterprise that could end in financial and social ruin. |
| Authors: | Richard Kirwan, Sophie Mullins |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Books--Europe--History--17th century, Publishers and publishing--Europe--History--16th century, Publishers and publishing--Europe--History--17th century, Book industries and trade--Europe--History--16th century, Book industries and trade--Europe--History--17th century, Book sellers and bookselling--Europe--History--16th century, Printing--Europe--History--17th century, Books--Europe--History--1450-1600, Book sellers and bookselling--Europe--History--17th century, Printing--Europe--History--16th |
| Categories: | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Publishers & Publishing Industry, ART / Techniques / Printmaking |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World, edited by Richard Kirwan and Sophie Mullins, investigates an underexplored yet important facet of early modern book production. Bringing together 19 detailed case studies, this volume considers and reconstructs the characteristics of specialist book production in the early modern period. In particular it explores the motives that led to specialisation ranging from the desire for profit on the part of risk-taking, entrepreneurial individuals or family firms to the more propagandist or missionising aims of corporate groups who subsidised production, often without regard for profit. The book also explores the economic and personal pressures and perils that accompanied specialist production, which was often a risk-laden enterprise that could end in financial and social ruin. |
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| ISBN: | 9789004288102 9789004290228 |
