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Fairs, markets and the itinerant book trade / edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote.

Contributor(s): Series: Publishing pathwaysPublication details: New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press ; London : British Library, 2007.Description: xv, 223 p. : ill., 1 map ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781584562009 (Oak Knoll : cased) :
  • 1584562005 (Oak Knoll : pbk. ) :
  • 9780712349840 (British Library : cased) :
  • 0712349847 (British Library : pbk.) :
Other title:
  • Fairs, markets & the itinerant book trade [Spine title]
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Contents:
"Omnium totius orbis emporiorum compendium" : the Frankfurt Fair in the early modern period / John L. Flood -- Itinerant booksellers, printers, and pedlars in sixteenth-century Spain and Portugal / Clive Griffin -- Murder, debt and retribution in the Italico-Franco-Spanish book trade : the Beraud-Michel-Ruiz affair, 1586-91 / Ian Maclean -- "To all booksellers, country chapmen, hawkers and others" : how the population of East Anglia obtained its printed materials / David Stoker -- Watching the pedlar's movements: itinerant distribution in the urban Netherlands / Jeroen Salman -- The Scottish chapman / John Morris -- The book trade in public spaces: London street booksellers, 1690-1850 / Michael Harris.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Barcode
Book Book CGLAS Library Purple 381.45 MYE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 11740

"Based on papers originally given at the 27th annual conference on book trade history, sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association and held, in 2005, at the Society of Antiquaries"--P. vii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Omnium totius orbis emporiorum compendium" : the Frankfurt Fair in the early modern period / John L. Flood -- Itinerant booksellers, printers, and pedlars in sixteenth-century Spain and Portugal / Clive Griffin -- Murder, debt and retribution in the Italico-Franco-Spanish book trade : the Beraud-Michel-Ruiz affair, 1586-91 / Ian Maclean -- "To all booksellers, country chapmen, hawkers and others" : how the population of East Anglia obtained its printed materials / David Stoker -- Watching the pedlar's movements: itinerant distribution in the urban Netherlands / Jeroen Salman -- The Scottish chapman / John Morris -- The book trade in public spaces: London street booksellers, 1690-1850 / Michael Harris.