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The Bookshop of the World

Door Andrew Pettegree e.a.

Categorie
Algemeen Geschiedenis
Boeknummer
#371372-XO3
Titel
The Bookshop of the World
Auteur
Pettegree, Andrew & Arthur der Weduwen
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New Haven : Yale University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2019
ISBN10
0300230079
ISBN13
9780300230079
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original white boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, some illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world's greatest bibliophiles--"an instant classic on Dutch book history" (BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review) "[An] excellent contribution to book history."--Robert Darnton, New York Review of Books The Dutch Golden Age has long been seen as the age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, whose paintings captured the public imagination and came to represent the marvel that was the Dutch Republic. Yet there is another, largely overlooked marvel in the Dutch world of the seventeenth century: books. In this fascinating account, Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen show how the Dutch produced many more books than pictures and bought and owned more books per capita than any other part of Europe. Ke... (Lees verder)y innovations in marketing, book auctions, and newspaper advertising brought stability to a market where elsewhere publishers faced bankruptcy, and created a population uniquely well-informed and politically engaged. This book tells for the first time the remarkable story of the Dutch conquest of the European book world and shows the true extent to which these pious, prosperous, quarrelsome, and generous people were shaped by what they read.
Pagina's
493
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 15,00

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