Women and the Book Trade

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Smith
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Research ◽  
Women's Literature ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
Female Authors ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scribal Publication

Interest in women’s work in the Renaissance and Reformation book trades has been stimulated by the maturation of two important scholarly fields: the study of women’s literature and history, and the history of the book. Pettegree’s The Book in the Renaissance (Pettegree 2010, cited under General Overviews) exemplifies the ways in which recent scholarship has established the emergence of print as central to the production and articulation of national identity, religious reform, and international scholarly communities. The books and articles listed in the first half of this bibliography reveal much about women’s participation in the book trades across Europe and into the New World, but also make it clear that there is significant work still to be done, both in the form of individual, local, or national case studies, and in the form of ambitious comparative research. Seeking out the particularities of women’s engagement in the work of publication and with the products of the early modern book trade not only illuminates the operations of printing and bookselling in this period, but also pushes scholars to take a wide view of “publication” and of the role of consumers (purchasers, readers, and patrons) in shaping the print marketplace. The second half of this bibliography, largely but not wholly restricted to the English example, details important work on women and manuscript or scribal publication, how women entered into print and were presented (or presented themselves) as female authors, how print itself was imaginatively gendered, and women’s influence as buyers and readers.

The Watson Family, the Association for the Discountenancing of Vice and the Irish Cheap Repository Tracts*

The Library ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-384
Author(s):  
David Stoker
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Depression

Abstract Although the history of Hannah More’s Cheap Repository Tracts in England and America is well known, little has been written about the 270 or more editions published in Ireland 1795-c. 1830. They were first published by William Watson, a Dublin bookseller who, in 1792, had founded The Association for the Discountenancing of Vice (ADV). This article describes the founding and growth of the Association and the involvement of Watson and his son in the publishing of the tracts during the late 1790s. It also describes the role of the Watson family, the ADV and the Cheap Repository tracts during the Anglican Evangelical Crusade (1801–1830) after the 1798 rebellion in Ireland. Whilst many members of the Dublin book trade suffered from a severe economic depression after 1801, the Watson family continued to prosper, thanks to the printing and publishing work undertaken on behalf of the ADV. The Watson family business closed in 1832, but the ADV has lasted to the present day operating under a different name.

A history of the book trade in the south

1993 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 17-33
Author(s):  
Philip Maurice Pfeffer
Keyword(s):  
Book Trade ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
The South ◽  
History Of

The introduction of the printed book auction catalogue

Quaerendo ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-149
Author(s):  
Bert Van Selm
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
Present Knowledge ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Dutch Republic ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Book Sales ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Hague

AbstractBook historians have generally seen the introduction of the printed book auction catalogue as an important event in the history of the book trade. Catalogues were already being printed in the Dutch Republic in about 1600 and the present article discusses the factors that favoured this remarkably early development. In section 2 the author surveys present knowledge of book auctions from classical antiquity up to the year 1598. In particular, he discusses sales of books in the estates of deceased persons in the Low Countries during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with particular reference to auctions in Leiden and The Hague in the last part of the sixteenth century. From the data assembled it emerges that the auctioning of books was certainly not first thought of in the Dutch Republic and that many auctions of property, including books, were held before 1599. In 1596 Louis (II) Elzevier was granted permission to hold book auctions in the Great Hall of the Binnenhof in The Hague, and in the hands of a bookseller it was possible for this form of trade to develop in the best possible way. In section 3 the author moves on to the earliest book sales with printed catalogues, namely the Marnix sale of 1599 and the Daniel van der Meulen sale of 4

Mourning, Melancholy and Hexis: Towards a Context for Fritz Yshaq Baer

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-253
Author(s):  
Eleazar Gutwirth
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Public History ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Alternative Possibilities ◽  
History Of Reading ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Ethics Of Reading ◽  
History Of

An examination, annotation and translation of the hitherto unpublished correspondence with Baer in the Baron papers lead to a re-contextualization. Intensified after his demise in 1980, a large stream of publications attempted to contextualize the work of the historian of the Jews of Christian Spain, Fritz Yshaq Baer, against the background of broadly known events of the twentieth century, identifying him with a “School” of Jewish history. Here this notion is traced to the early 1970s and alternative possibilities are explored. First, attention is paid to the role of institutions, networks and models in the production of knowledge without restricting this solely to the universities or to Germany. This leads to valuing the role of Spanish institutions and their intellectual presuppositions and practices. The history of reading raises questions as to the role of intended public, history of the book and genre in his publications. Finally, taking the ethics of reading into consideration, we ask who the participants in the dialogues he was constructing were. This includes his correspondence with Baron which is published as an appendix.

Studying the History of the Book Trade Development in the Komi Republic (19th — 20th centuries)

2009 ◽  
pp. 105-109
Author(s):  
Larisa P. Roschevskaya
Keyword(s):  
Book Trade ◽  
Komi Republic ◽  
The State ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Book Selling ◽  
History Of

The results of the research on the history of the book trade in the Komi Republic at the turn of the 19—20th centuries, during the formation of the state book-selling policy since 1917 and until the 2000's are presented. The author also informs about library acquisition and stresses its interrelation with book trade in the modern period

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