Jefcoate | An Ocean of Literature: John Henry Bohte | Buch | 978-3-487-15840-2 | sack.de

Buch, Englisch, 572 Seiten, broschiert, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1089 g

Jefcoate

An Ocean of Literature: John Henry Bohte

and the Anglo-German Book Trade in the Early Nineteenth Century
2020
ISBN: 978-3-487-15840-2
Verlag: Georg Olms Verlag

and the Anglo-German Book Trade in the Early Nineteenth Century

Buch, Englisch, 572 Seiten, broschiert, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1089 g

ISBN: 978-3-487-15840-2
Verlag: Georg Olms Verlag

In the years following the Napoleonic Wars, the Bremen-born John Henry Bohte (1784-1824) quite rapidly acquired a reputation as a bookseller and publisher, with an import/export business based in London and also a presence in Leipzig. Bohte opened his shop in York Street, Covent Garden, in early 1813, while still in his twenties. He specialised in importing German books and German editions of the Greek and Roman classics, but soon combined his retail business with a German circulating library, the “Deutsche Lesebibliothek”. In early 1820, he was awarded a Royal Warrant as “Foreign Bookseller to His Majesty the King”.
The portfolio of products and services offered by Bohte’s business included not just the importation of German books, but also an ambitious publishing programme in the fields of German and English literature, classical philology and natural history. Bohte’s regular and prolonged trips to Germany to attend the Leipzig Easter Book Fairs reflected his ambition to become a major exporter of English books to the continent too. In the words of one anonymous reviewer, Bohte was considered “a most spirited and most useful bookseller”. Although he died suddenly in London in 1824, aged only forty, he left an important legacy in both London and Leipzig.
In his biography of J. H. Bohte, An Ocean of Literature, Graham Jefcoate has used a wide range of materials from collections in Britain, Germany and elsewhere to illuminate the role of the book trade in the process of Anglo-German exchange in the early nineteenth century.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Jefcoate, Graham P.
Jefcoate, Graham

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