Despite the fact that, if only by number, small and peripheral cities played an important role in fifteenth and sixteenth-century European print culture, book history has mainly been dominated by monographs on individual big book centres. Through a number of specific case studies, which deploy a variety of methods and a wide range of sources, this volume seeks to enhance our understanding of printing and the book trade in small and peripheral European cities in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and to emphasize the necessity of new research for the study of print culture in such cities.
Benito Rial Costas, Ph.D. (2006) in Spanish Philology, University of Santiago de Compostela, is an independent scholar based in Italy. He has published on print culture in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, including Producción y comercio del libro (2007).
âThe volume lives up to its ambitions and contains much that is novel and useful.â
Ian Maclean, All Souls College, Oxford University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Fall 2013), pp. 964-965.
âThe caliber of research in all essays in the volume is extremely high, with some genuinely outstanding contributions [â¦] both the editor and contributors should be congratulated on this remarkable and thought-provoking volume.â
Alexander S. Wilkinson, University College Dublin. In: SHARP News, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Autumn 2014), p. 10.
âthis is a welcome collection of studies illustrating the less-than-usual corners of the early-modern book trade in Europe.â
David J. Shaw, Canterbury. In: Publishing History, Vol. 73 (2013), pp. 81-84.
Chapter 14: Manuel Peña DÃaz
Barcelona: Printers, Booksellers and Local Markets in the Sixteenth Century
Chapter 15: FermÃn de los Reyes and Marta M. Nadales
The Book in Segovia in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Accident, Chance, Necessity?
Chapter 16: Benito Rial Costas
Santiago de Compostela: A Case Study of Bookselling in Peripheries
Chapter 17: Anastasio Rojo Vega
From Europe to Finisterre: A Caravan of Books to Galicia (1595)
All those interested in book history, early modern European history, bibliography, European Renaissance, cultural history, and the history of printing and the book trade.