A maturing market the Iberian book world in the first half of the seventeenth century / edited by Alexander S. Wilkinson and Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo.

Other author Wilkinson, Alexander S., 1975-
Other author Ulla Lorenzo, Alejandra.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Descriptionxv, 285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Book industries and trade--Spain. --History. --17th century.
Book industries and trade--Portugal. --History. --17th century.
Books and reading--Spain. --History. --17th century.
Books and reading--Portugal. --History. --17th century.
Publishers and publishing--Spain. --History. --17th century.
Publishers and publishing--Portugal. --History. --17th century.
Authors and publishers--Spain. --History. --17th century.
Authors and publishers--Portugal. --History. --17th century.

SeriesLibrary of the written word, 1874-4834 ; volume 59. The handpress world ; volume 44
Contents Part 1. Surveys of the book trade -- A maturing market : the Iberian book world in the first half of the seventeenth century / Alexander S. Wilkinson -- Printing in Antwerp in the early seventeenth century and its connections with the Iberian world / César Manrique Figueroa -- The importation of books into New Spain during the seventeenth century / Idalia García -- Women and the Iberian book trade, 1472-1650 / Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo -- Part 2. Addressing the reader in golden-age Spain -- The book-reader relationship in golden-age Spain : reading practices and the publishing industry in Don Quixote / Sarah Malfatti -- 'Reasons of state for any author' : common sense, translation, and the international republic of letters / José María Pérez Fernández -- Writing literature for publication, 1605-1637 / Esther Villegas de la Torre -- Part 3. The stage in print -- Printed plays in early modern Spain / Don Cruickshank -- Cervantes's Ocho comedias : from the pen to the print-shop / John O'Neill -- Printing licenses and the trade in fiction in Spain in the first half of the seventeenth century / Manuel Calderón Calderón -- Part 4. Market specialisms : chivalric literature, medicine and the news -- Printing books of chivalry in Portugal at the beginning of the seventeenth century / Aurelio Vargas Díaz-Toledo -- Medical publishing in Portugal in the first half of the seventeenth century : a good business? / Hervé Baudry -- The golden age of the single event printed newsletter : relaciones de sucesos, 1601-1650 / Henry Ettinghausen -- 'Things worthy of being known' : the reception and consumption of the press in Catalonia during the first half of the seventeenth century / Ricard Expósito Amagat.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2017026204
ISBN9789004340374 (hardback : acid-free paper)