The book trade in the Italian Renaissance /

The book trade in the Italian Renaissance /

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Author / Creator:Nuovo, Angela, author.
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Description:xv, 474 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Library of the written word ; volume 26
The handpress world ; volume 20
Library of the written word ; 26.
Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 20.
Subject:
Book industries and trade -- Italy -- History -- 16th century.
Book industries and trade -- Italy -- History.
Book industries and trade.
Italy.
History.
Format: Print Book
Local Note:University of Chicago Library's copy 2 has original dust jacket.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9342250
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Other authors / contributors:Cochrane, Lydia G., translator.
ISBN:9004245472 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9789004245471 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9789004208490 (e-book)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translated from Italian.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Commercial Networks
  • I. The Commercial Network of the Company of Venice
  • Johannes de Colonia and Nicolaus Jenson
  • Peter Ugelheimer, Creator of the Commercial Network
  • The Transfer of the Network to Ugolino da Fabriano and Giovan Pietro Bonomini
  • Transfer of Control in Perugia
  • The Network Ceded to Gerhard Lof
  • Transfer of Control in Siena
  • Giovan Pietro Bonomini: From Tuscany to Portugal
  • II. The Development of Commercial Networks
  • The Giunti
  • The First Generation
  • The Second Generation
  • The Third Generation
  • The Giunti in Rome
  • The Gabiano Family
  • Giovanni Bartolomeo da Gabiano
  • Other Booksellers' Commercial Networks
  • Bernardino Stagnino
  • Giovanni Giolito de Ferrari
  • The Sessa Family
  • The Varisco Family
  • Juridical Relations among Wholesalers and Retailers
  • Sales on Commission
  • The Sale-or-Return Contract
  • Other Relations between Wholesalers and Retailers
  • Production
  • III. Press Runs
  • Press Runs Inferred from the Zornale of Francesco de Madiis (1484-1488)
  • Geographical and Historical Variations
  • Press Runs in the Cinquecento
  • IV. Warehouses
  • The Market: From Local to Transnational
  • The Warehouse of Sigismondo dei Libri (1484)
  • The Warehouse of Platone de Benedetti (1497)
  • The Warehouse of Niccolò Gorgonzola (1537)
  • Book Warehouses in the Cinquecento
  • Book Warehouses and Paper Supply
  • V. Marks and Branches
  • Marks in Printed Books
  • Contention over Marks
  • The History of an Emblematic Mark: The Giolito Phoenix
  • Non-Commercial Marks on Printed Books
  • The Branch System
  • The Transnational System of Branches
  • The Gabiano Family in Lyon
  • The Manuzio Firm in Paris
  • The Branch System in Italy
  • Giolito Branch Organization
  • The Giolito Branch in Naples (1545)
  • The Giolito Branch in Rome (1582?)
  • Branches and Marks
  • Branches and the Diffusion of Publishing Initiatives
  • Foreign Branches in Italy?
  • VI. The Book Privilege System
  • The Institution of the Privilege
  • Book Privileges
  • Literary Privileges
  • Venetian Printing Legislation before 1540
  • Venetian Printing Legislation, 1540s to 1603
  • Applying for a Privilege
  • Notification and Display of Privileges
  • The Privileged Printer
  • Pre-publication Censorship and Licencing
  • Book Privileges in Rome
  • The Great Venetian Bookmen and Papal Privileges
  • Selling and Distribution
  • VII. Distribution
  • Distribution and University Cities: Cultural Contacts and Fiscal Exemptions
  • Distribution from Venice
  • Middlemen
  • VIII. Fairs
  • Italian Bookmen at the Frankfurt Fair
  • Pietro Perna (d. 1582)
  • Pietro Longo (d. 1588)
  • Giovan Battista Ciotti (d. after 1625)
  • Italian Books at the Frankfurt Fair
  • Italian Fairs
  • Venice, a Permanent Book Fair
  • Book Fairs in Italy
  • The Fairs of Recanati and Foligno
  • The Fair of Lanciano
  • A Bookseller at the Fairs: Bernardo dÆAsola, Agent of the Gabiano Firm (1522)
  • IX. Retail Sales: Distribution
  • Cartolai and Peddlers in the Diario of the Ripoli Press (1476-1484)
  • Cheap Print Sales beyond Bookshops
  • The Sale of Books in Cartolai's Shops
  • Shop Sales: The Zornale of Francesco de Madiis (1484-1488)
  • The Price of Books
  • X. Shop Inventories
  • Characteristics of Shop Inventories
  • Inventories of the 1470s and 1480s
  • Inventories of the 1490s
  • Early Sixteenth-Century Inventories
  • Inventories in University Cities
  • Bookshop Inventories after 1550
  • Ferrara
  • Rome
  • Verona
  • Venice
  • Vicenza
  • Cremona
  • Milan
  • Editions and Copies in Bookshops
  • XI. Managing a Bookshop
  • Internal Views
  • Inside the Shop: The Placement and Arrangement of Books
  • Bound Books, Used Books
  • Buying and Selling a Bookshop
  • Men of Letters and the Bookshop
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Archival Sources
  • Inventories of Bookshops and Warehouses, Catalogues, and Commercial Lists
  • Printed Primary Sources
  • Repertories
  • Secondary Literature
  • Index

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