Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World by Kirwan, Richard

Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World (Leather) (ISBN-13: 9789004288102)

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Format: Leather
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Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World by Kirwan, Richard

Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World

$243.00
Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World by Kirwan, Richard

Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World

$243.00
Format: Leather
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Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World, edited by Richard Kirwan and Sophie Mullins, investigates an underexplored yet important facet of early modern book production. Bringing together 19 detailed case studies, this volume considers and reconstructs the characteristics of specialist book production in the early modern period. In particular it explores the motives that led to specialisation ranging from the desire for profit on the part of risk-taking, entrepreneurial individuals or family firms to the more propagandist or missionising aims of corporate groups who subsidised production, often without regard for profit. The book also explores the economic and personal pressures and perils that accompanied specialist production, which was often a risk-laden enterprise that could end in financial and social ruin.

Author: Richard Kirwan
ISBN-10: 9004288104
ISBN-13: 9789004288102
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 06/16/2015
Pages: 416
Format: Leather
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.30w x 1.10d
By Richard Kirwan
By Richard Kirwan
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Richard Kirwan (Ph.D., 2007, Trinity College Dublin) is Lecturer in History at the University of Limerick. His research explores the social and cultural history of early modern universities. His publications include the monograph Empowerment and Representation at the University in Early Modern Germany. Helmstedt and Würzburg, 1576-1634 (Harrassowitz, 2009) and an edited volume Scholarly Self-Fashioning and Community in the Early Modern University (Ashgate, 2013).

Sophie Mullins (Ph.D., 2013, University of St Andrews) is the Business Development Executive in the Knowledge Transfer Centre at the University of St Andrews.

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