Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650–1750

Ann-Marie Hansen, PhD (McGill University), is Project Manager of ‘Unlocking the Fagel Collection’ at the Library of Trinity College Dublin. She has published on eighteenth-century editorial and publishing culture, evidence of early modern reading, and heritage book collections and their documentation. Arthur der Weduwen is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Co-Director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue project. He specialises in the history of communication, printing and the book trade, early modern politics, and the history of the Netherlands. He is the author of six monographs and several edited volumes in these fields.

Preface


List of Figures and Tables


Notes on Contributors





PART 1: Publishing Strategies


1 Practitioners, Pills and the Press: Publishing Strategies in the Dutch Medical Market (c.1660–c.1770)


 Jeroen Salman





2 School Books, Public Education and the State of Literacy in Early Modern Catalonia


 Xevi Camprubí





3 The Cometary Apparition of 1743/44: Periodical Journals in the Holy Roman Empire and Their Communicative Role


 Doris Gruber





Part 2: Censorship and Evasion


4 A Peculiar Case of Entrepreneurial Bravery: The First Edition of Galileo Galilei’s Collected Works in the Context of Mid-seventeenth-century Publishing and Censorship


 Leonardo Anatrini





5 Persecuted in the Spanish Colonies: Inquisitorial Censorship and the Circulation of Medical and Scientific Books in New Spain and New Granada


 Alberto José Campillo Pardo and Idalia García





6 The Troubles of a Protestant Bookseller in a Catholic Market: The Nuremberg Bookseller Johann Friedrich Rüdiger (1686–1751) and the Prague Book Trade


 Mona Garloff





7 Disclosing False Imprints: a New Look at Eighteenth-Century French Printed Production


 Dominique Varry





Part 3: Auctions, Collectors and Catalogues


8 Early Modern English Parish Libraries: Collecting and Collections in the Francis Trigge Chained Library and the Gorton Chest Parish Library


 Jessica G. Purdy





9 ‘Libri Anglici’: English Books in Danish and Dutch Library Collections, c.1650–1720


 Hanna de Lange





10 The Government at Auction: Urban Policy and the Market for Books in Eighteenth-Century Lübeck


 Philippe Bernhard Schmid





11 Philosophie or Commerce? Classification Systems in Eighteenth-Century French Private Library Catalogues


 Helwi Blom





12 Sir Hans Sloane’s Collection of Books and Manuscripts: an Enlightenment Library?


 Alexandra Ortolja-Baird





Index