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Publishing policies and family strategies : the fortunes of a Dutch publishing house in the 18th and early 19th centuries /

This study analyses the history of the Dutch publishers and booksellers firm Blussé between 1745 and 1830. The development of this company is connected with the history of the Blussé family in this period, combining book history and family history in an innovatory way.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baggerman, Arianne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Colección:Library of the written word ; volume 32.
Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 32.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Destined for each other : making the acquaintance of Pieter Blussé
  • Moving up in the world : the firm of Abraham Blussé & Son, c. 1771
  • A bookseller with 'a few friends' : social network and political engagement
  • The pubishing trade in the last quarter of the eighteenth century
  • From reader to publisher, the third Blussé generation : building a family empire
  • A necrology of knowledge, culture and folly : the publisher's list and the invisible hand in the archive
  • Appendix I. Publisher's list A. Blussé
  • Appendix II. Average print runs per genre, 1797-1818.