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Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World

Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World

Kirwan, Richard
Mullins, Sophie

Hardcover

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryBusiness of WritingTechnology & Engineering

ISBN10: 9004288104
ISBN13: 9789004288102
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jun 16 2015
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
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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