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Early Modern Publishers
Identities and Strategies in the Book Trade
Series: - Library of the Written Word, Volume: 138
- Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Volume: 138
Publishers play an indisputably important part in book history, but cover such wide areas of activity that they are rarely given a formal definition. This volume seeks to place the publisher at the heart of the early modern book trade. It examines their identities and careers, the business strategies they adopted for survival, their involvement in the professional, religious, political, and economic conditions in which they found themselves, and the constraints under which they had to operate.
By presenting more than twenty case studies on individual and groups of publishers active in Sweden, Prussia, Switzerland, France, Italy, England, Ireland, Germany and the Low Countries, this volume makes a major contribution to the study of an elusive but essential figure in the history of the early modern book.
By presenting more than twenty case studies on individual and groups of publishers active in Sweden, Prussia, Switzerland, France, Italy, England, Ireland, Germany and the Low Countries, this volume makes a major contribution to the study of an elusive but essential figure in the history of the early modern book.
Barnaby Cullen, PhD (2024, University of St Andrews) is a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant with the COMLAWEU project at the University of St Andrews. He specialises in the history of print and politics of early modern Scandinavia and the Baltic.
Ian Maclean FBA holds Emeritus and Honorary Professorships at Oxford and St Andrews. His most recent publications are Episodes in the Life of the Early Modern Learned Book (Brill, 2020) and [ed. with Dmitri Levitin] Classical Reception in Early Modern Europe: Comparative Perspectives (Brill, 2021).
Arthur der Weduwen is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Co-Director and Project Manager of the Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC). He specialises in the history of communication, printing and the book trade, early modern politics, and the history of the Netherlands. He is the author or editor of a dozen books in these fields.
Ian Maclean FBA holds Emeritus and Honorary Professorships at Oxford and St Andrews. His most recent publications are Episodes in the Life of the Early Modern Learned Book (Brill, 2020) and [ed. with Dmitri Levitin] Classical Reception in Early Modern Europe: Comparative Perspectives (Brill, 2021).
Arthur der Weduwen is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Co-Director and Project Manager of the Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC). He specialises in the history of communication, printing and the book trade, early modern politics, and the history of the Netherlands. He is the author or editor of a dozen books in these fields.
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: Early Modern Publishers
âIan Maclean
2 King, Bishop, Professor and Postmaster: The Early Modern Swedish Publisher
âArthur der Weduwen and Barnaby Cullen
3 Olaus Magnus as Publisher: An Exiled Swedish Archbishop in Rome
âVigdis Andrea Baugstø Evang
4 Strategies of Paratexts: Polish-Speaking Königsberg Publishers (c.1540â1575) Communicating with Their Readers
âWojciech Kordyzon
5 An Institutional Collective Publisher? Genevaâs Company of Pastors Exploiting Printing (c.1620âc.1685)
âHadrien Dami
6 Publishing Books by Subscription: The Contribution to Its Development by Authors, the Universities and Booksellers in Seventeenth-Century England
âJohn A. Sibbald
7 Publishing an Early Modern Best Seller: Jean du PreÌ and the French Vitae patrum (1486â1487)
âMatteo Colombo
8 Necessary and Useful Things: Hernando Colón, the Bindoni Family and the Production of Popular Books in Sixteenth-Century Venice
âNatale Vacalebre
9 âBlawius paratissimus est excudere Niciana omniaâ
âGian Vittorio Rossiâs Pinacotheca and the Collaborative Navigation of the Interconfessional Early Modern Book Trade
âJennifer K. Nelson
10 âPopish Books and Popish Knacksâ: The Evolving Publishing Career of James Thompson, 1650â1678
âChelsea Reutcke
11 For Economic Profit or the Jansenist Cause?
âHow Eugène-Henri Fricx and Arnauld de Brigode Managed Their Publishing Roles during the Jansenist Controversy (1680â1703)
âDieter Cammaerts
12 The Protestant Merchants Who Kept Catholic Publishing Alive: Publishing and Distribution Strategy at the Officina Plantiniana
âElise Watson
13 âI Am Not AfraidâI Have a Printing Press at My Disposalâ: Aspects of Hebrew Printing and Publishing in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam
âHeide Warncke
14 Thomas Basset, Publisher of Locke and Hobbes: A Life and Death on Fleet Street
âGeoff Kemp
15 Champions of âThe Great English Third Estateâ? The Evolving Output of English Trade Publishers, 1680â1700
âBasil Bowdler
16 Politics behind Publishing: The Publication of French Revolutionary Books for the Dublin Market, 1789â1794
âMaria Zukovs
17 A Bitter Rivalry: Parrino, Bulifon and the Race to Publish a History of Naples
âLaura Incollingo
18 Johann Hermann Widerhold (1635â1683), International Publishing Rivalries and the Limits of the Genevan Book Trade in the Late Seventeenth Century
âZachary Brookman
19 Negotiating Practice and Identity through Nachdruck: Publishers and Unauthorised Print in the German Print World (1765â1835)
âIsabelle Riepe
20 The Poor versus the Patents: Contextualising John Danterâs Reputation through the Lens of the Patent-Less Poor
âMichelle Michel
21 Behold, a White Horse in St Paulâs Churchyard: Arthur Johnson and the Distribution of Literature in Early Seventeenth-Century London
âAndreas P. Bassett
22 Women Stationers at the Temple
âUncovering the Presence of Women in the Book Trade at the Honourable Societies of the Middle Temple and the Inner Temple
âBarnaby Bryan and Renae Satterley
23 The English Provincial Publisher, 1695â1750: Beyond the Local Newspaper
âJames McCall
Afterword: O, Where Are the Early Modern Publishers for Today?
âJeff Jarvis
Index
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: Early Modern Publishers
âIan Maclean
Part 1: Authors, Translators, Patrons and Institutions as Publishers
2 King, Bishop, Professor and Postmaster: The Early Modern Swedish Publisher
âArthur der Weduwen and Barnaby Cullen
3 Olaus Magnus as Publisher: An Exiled Swedish Archbishop in Rome
âVigdis Andrea Baugstø Evang
4 Strategies of Paratexts: Polish-Speaking Königsberg Publishers (c.1540â1575) Communicating with Their Readers
âWojciech Kordyzon
5 An Institutional Collective Publisher? Genevaâs Company of Pastors Exploiting Printing (c.1620âc.1685)
âHadrien Dami
6 Publishing Books by Subscription: The Contribution to Its Development by Authors, the Universities and Booksellers in Seventeenth-Century England
âJohn A. Sibbald
Part 2: Publishers and Commercial Strategies
7 Publishing an Early Modern Best Seller: Jean du PreÌ and the French Vitae patrum (1486â1487)
âMatteo Colombo
8 Necessary and Useful Things: Hernando Colón, the Bindoni Family and the Production of Popular Books in Sixteenth-Century Venice
âNatale Vacalebre
Part 3: Confessional Identities, Economic Considerations
9 âBlawius paratissimus est excudere Niciana omniaâ
âGian Vittorio Rossiâs Pinacotheca and the Collaborative Navigation of the Interconfessional Early Modern Book Trade
âJennifer K. Nelson
10 âPopish Books and Popish Knacksâ: The Evolving Publishing Career of James Thompson, 1650â1678
âChelsea Reutcke
11 For Economic Profit or the Jansenist Cause?
âHow Eugène-Henri Fricx and Arnauld de Brigode Managed Their Publishing Roles during the Jansenist Controversy (1680â1703)
âDieter Cammaerts
12 The Protestant Merchants Who Kept Catholic Publishing Alive: Publishing and Distribution Strategy at the Officina Plantiniana
âElise Watson
13 âI Am Not AfraidâI Have a Printing Press at My Disposalâ: Aspects of Hebrew Printing and Publishing in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam
âHeide Warncke
Part 4: Political Identities, Economic Considerations
14 Thomas Basset, Publisher of Locke and Hobbes: A Life and Death on Fleet Street
âGeoff Kemp
15 Champions of âThe Great English Third Estateâ? The Evolving Output of English Trade Publishers, 1680â1700
âBasil Bowdler
16 Politics behind Publishing: The Publication of French Revolutionary Books for the Dublin Market, 1789â1794
âMaria Zukovs
Part 5: Rivalries and Controversy
17 A Bitter Rivalry: Parrino, Bulifon and the Race to Publish a History of Naples
âLaura Incollingo
18 Johann Hermann Widerhold (1635â1683), International Publishing Rivalries and the Limits of the Genevan Book Trade in the Late Seventeenth Century
âZachary Brookman
19 Negotiating Practice and Identity through Nachdruck: Publishers and Unauthorised Print in the German Print World (1765â1835)
âIsabelle Riepe
Part 6: Profiles of the English Publisher, 1580â1750
20 The Poor versus the Patents: Contextualising John Danterâs Reputation through the Lens of the Patent-Less Poor
âMichelle Michel
21 Behold, a White Horse in St Paulâs Churchyard: Arthur Johnson and the Distribution of Literature in Early Seventeenth-Century London
âAndreas P. Bassett
22 Women Stationers at the Temple
âUncovering the Presence of Women in the Book Trade at the Honourable Societies of the Middle Temple and the Inner Temple
âBarnaby Bryan and Renae Satterley
23 The English Provincial Publisher, 1695â1750: Beyond the Local Newspaper
âJames McCall
Afterword: O, Where Are the Early Modern Publishers for Today?
âJeff Jarvis
Index
All scholars and students interested in the history of publishing, the book trade, printers, booksellers and early modern Europe, including legal, cultural and commercial practices. Keywords: Printers, Booksellers, Printing, Print Trade, Europe, Books, Print, Bookselling, England, Religion, Patronage, Authors, Translators, Commerce, Italy, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Prussia, Sweden, Ireland, Germany, Newspapers.