The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age
ISBN-13:
9780300230079
ISBN-10:
0300230079
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Format:
Hardcover
496 pages
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Book details
ISBN-13:
9780300230079
ISBN-10:
0300230079
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Format:
Hardcover
496 pages
Summary
The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age (ISBN-13: 9780300230079 and ISBN-10: 0300230079), written by authors
Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, was published by Yale University Press in 2019.
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The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world's greatest bibliophiles
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.
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.
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