Bibliograph

The bookshop of the world, making and trading books in the Dutch golden age, Andrew Pettegree & Arthur der Weduwen

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The bookshop of the world, making and trading books in the Dutch golden age, Andrew Pettegree & Arthur der Weduwen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-460) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The bookshop of the world

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1046552747

Responsibility statement

Andrew Pettegree & Arthur der Weduwen

Sub title

making and trading books in the Dutch golden age

Summary

The Dutch Golden Age has long been seen as the age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, whose paintings captured the public imagination and came to represent the marvel that was the Dutch Republic. Yet there is another, largely overlooked marvel in the Dutch world of the seventeenth century: books. In this fascinating account, Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen show how the Dutch produced many more books than pictures and bought and owned more books per capita than any other part of Europe. Key innovations in marketing, book auctions, and newspaper advertising brought stability to a market where elsewhere publishers faced bankruptcy, and created a population uniquely well-informed and politically engaged. This book tells for the first time the remarkable story of the Dutch conquest of the European book world and shows the true extent to which these pious, prosperous, quarrelsome, and generous people were shaped by what they read

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