1st Edition
Publishing Networks in France in the Early Era of Print
By Diane E. Booton
Copyright 2018
270 Pages
41 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
270 Pages
41 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
270 Pages
41 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book examines commercial and personal connections in the early modern book trade in Paris and northwestern France, ca. 1450–1550. The book market, commercial trade, and geo-political ties connected the towns of Paris, Caen, Angers, Rennes, and Nantes, making this a fertile area for the transference of different fields of knowledge via book culture. Diane Booton investigates various... Read more
Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Map of northwestern France; Introduction; Chapter 1 Profiting from a Breton Bestseller; Chapter 2 The (Re)use of Interchangeable Blocks; Chapter 3 Selling Books as a Breton Business; Chapter 4 Breton Diaspora and the Book Business; Chapter 5 Shaping a Reader’s Library; Conclusions; Appendix; Bibliography; Index
Biography
Diane E. Booton, Ph.D., is an independent scholar specializing in the history of the book in late medieval and early modern Europe.
