The bookshop of the world : making and trading books in the Dutch golden age

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Label

The bookshop of the world : making and trading books in the Dutch golden age

Title remainder

making and trading books in the Dutch golden age

Statement of responsibility

Andrew Pettegree & Arthur der Weduwen

Creator

• Pettegree, Andrew

Contributor

• Weduwen, Arthur der

Author

• Weduwen, Arthur der
• Pettegree, Andrew

Subject

• Booksellers and bookselling -- Netherlands -- History -- 16th century
• Booksellers and bookselling -- Netherlands -- History -- 17th century
• Buchdruck
• Buchdruck
• Buchhandel
• Buchhandel
• History
• History
• Netherlands
• Netherlands
• Niederlande
• 1500-1699
• Printing
• Printing
• Printing -- Netherlands -- History -- 16th century
• Printing -- Netherlands -- History -- 17th century
• Publishers and publishing
• Publishers and publishing
• Publishers and publishing -- Netherlands -- History -- 16th century
• Publishers and publishing -- Netherlands -- History -- 17th century
• Niederlande
• Booksellers and bookselling
• Booksellers and bookselling

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

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. Key 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

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

002.09

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

Z161

LC item number

.P48 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography