Book Trade Catalogues in Early Modern Europe

by Andrew Pettegree and Graeme Kemp, Edited by Arthur der Weduwen, Graeme Kemp, et al.

This edited collection offers in seventeen chapters the latest scholarship on book catalogues in early modern Europe. Contributors discuss the role that these catalogues played in bookselling and book auctions, as well as in guiding the tastes of book collectors and inspiring some of the greatest libraries of the era. Catalogues in the Low Countries, Britain, Germany, France and the Baltic region are studied as important products of the early modern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004422234
• ISBN13: 9789004422230
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 572 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.3"