Publishing policies and family strategies : the fortunes of a Dutch publishing house in the 18th and early 19th centuries
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Publishing policies and family strategies : the fortunes of a Dutch publishing house in the 18th and early 19th centuries
(Library of the written word, v. 32 . The handpress world ; v. 24)
Brill, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [533]-543) and index
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Description
This study analyses the development of the Dutch publishers and booksellers firm Blusse in connection with the history of the Blusse family between 1745 and 1830. The book offers new insight in the organization of the book trade, the theory and practice of copyright, competition and cooperation among publishers, book prices and print runs, including advertising and marketing. The history of the company is linked with that of the family, using letters and other autobiographical writings. Education, marriage policies, reading practices are among the subjects studied. Within the context of cultural developments, the influence of the Enlightenment, and the political upheavals in the period in the Netherlands, this book is both a detailed book history and a broadly based study of cultural change in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Abbrevations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
From Clutter Beast to Ghost Writer. The Invisible Hand in a Family Archive
CHAPTER 1
Destined for Each Other. Making the Acquaintance of Pieter Blusse
CHAPTER 2
Moving Up in the World. The Firm of Abraham Blusse & Son, c. 1771
CHAPTER 3
A Bookseller with 'a Few Friends'. Social Network and Political Engagement
CHAPTER 4
The Publishing Trade in the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century
CHAPTER 5
From Reader to Publisher, the third Blusse Generation: Building a Family Empire
CHAPTER 6
A Necrology of Knowledge, Culture and Folly: the Publisher's List and the Invisible Hand in the Archive
EPILOGUE
Appendices
Appendix I List of A. Blusse and Son
Appendix II Average number of printed copies per genre in the period 1797-1818
Notes/Bibliography
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"