Early Modern Publishers

Identities and Strategies in the Book Trade
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72715-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 138, 628 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cullen, Barnaby

Maclean, Ian

der Weduwen, Arthur

Über Autor(innen)

Barnaby Cullen (PhD, St Andrews 2024) is a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant with the COMLAWEU project at the University of St Andrews. He specialises in the history of print and politics of early modern Scandinavia and the Baltic.

Ian Maclean FBA holds Emeritus and Honorary Professorships at Oxford and St Andrews. His most recent publications are Episodes in the life of the early modern learned book (Brill, 2020) and [ed., with Dmitri Levitin] Classical reception in early modern Europe: comparative perspectives (Brill, 2021).

Arthur der Weduwen is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Co-Director and Project Manager of the USTC. He specialises in the history of communication, printing and the book trade, early modern politics, and the history of the Netherlands. He is the author or editor of a dozen books in these fields.