The paper trade in early modern Europe : practices, materials, networks
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The paper trade in early modern Europe : practices, materials, networks
(Library of the written word, v. 89 . The handpress world ; v. 70)
Brill, c2021
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Includes index
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Description
This book attends to the most essential, lucrative, and overlooked business activity of early modern Europe: the trade of paper. Despite the well-known fact that paper was crucial to the success of printing and record-keeping alike, paper remains one of the least studied areas of early modern history. Organised into three sections - 'Hotspots and Trade Routes', 'Usual Dealings', and 'Recycling Economies' - the chapters in this collection shed light on the practices, materials, and networks of the paper trade. Altogether, the collection uncovers the actors involved in the networks of paper production, transportation, purchase, and reuse, between the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries and across the central and peripheral papermaking regions of Europe.
Contributors: Renaud Adam, Daniel Bellingradt, Frank Birkenholz, Simon Burrows, Orietta Da Rold, Michael Falk, Anna Gialdini, Rachel Hendery, Silvia Hufnagel, Jean-Benoit Krumenacker, Katherine McDonough, Krisztina Rabai, Anna Reynolds, Benito Rial Costas, Tapio Salminen, Helen Smith, Jan Willem Veluwenkamp, Andreas Weber, and Megan Williams.
Table of Contents
Preface
Daniel Bellingradt and Anna Reynolds
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1 The Paper Trade in Early Modern Europe: An Introduction
Daniel Bellingradt
part 1: Hotspots and Trade Routes
2 Selling Paper in Early Modern Venice: Paper-retailers and the "Libri da carta bianca"
Anna Gialdini
3 'Unter dem Zeichen des Adlers': Frankfurt as Hub of the Central European Paper Trade in the 16th Century
Megan K. Williams
4 The Paper Supply of a Printing House as a Mirror of the Paper Trade in the Early Modern Low Countries: The Case of Dirk Martens' Workshop
Renaud Adam
5 Juan Tomas Fabario and the Paper Trade in Early Modern Spain or the Supply of Paper as a New Modality of Publishing
Benito Rial Costas
6 Paper Flows through the Danish Sound, 1634-1857
Jan Willem Veluwenkamp
7 Networks of Paper in Late Medieval England
Orietta Da Rold
part 2: Usual Dealings
8 Types and Sources of Paper in Late Medieval Finland: A Case Study of the Paper in Raseborg Castle Scriptorium, ca. 1390-1435
Tapio Salminen
9 Buying Paper for the Consulate: Insights into the Paper Trade of Lyon, 1450-1525
Jean-Benoit Krumenacker
10 The Usage and Acquisition of Paper in the Jagiellonian Courts, 1490-1507
Krisztina Rabai
11 The Paper Purchases of the Dutch East India Company's Amsterdam Chamber in the Early Eighteenth Century
Frank Birkenholz
12 Stationers, Papetiers and the Supply Networks of a Swiss Publisher: The Societe Typographique de Neuchatel and the Paper Trade 1769-1789
Simon Burrows, Michael Falk, Rachel Hendery, and Katherine McDonough
13 The Paper Trails of Gudbrandur THorlaksson: A Case Study of the Official and Private Paths Used for Purchasing Paper by the Sixteenth-Century Bishop of Holar, Iceland
Silvia Hufnagel
Part 3: Recycling Economies
14 Material Sensibilities: Writing Paper and Chemistry in the Netherlands and Beyond, ca. 1800
Andreas Weber
15 "Worthy to Be Reserved": Bookbindings and the Waste Paper Trade in Early Modern England and Scotland
Anna Reynolds
Part 4: Epilogue
16 Afterword
Helen Smith
Index
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