Publishing Policies and Family Strategies

The Fortunes of a Dutch Publishing House in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-25794-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 32, 554 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1043 g

Reihe: Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World

This study analyses the development of the Dutch publishers and booksellers firm Blussé in connection with the history of the Blussé family between 1745 and 1830. The book offers new insight in the organization of the book trade, the theory and practice of copyright, competition and cooperation among publishers, book prices and print runs, including advertising and marketing. The history of the company is linked with that of the family, using letters and other autobiographical writings. Education, marriage policies, reading practices are among the subjects studied. Within the context of cultural developments, the influence of the Enlightenment, and the political upheavals in the period in the Netherlands, this book is both a detailed book history and a broadly based study of cultural change in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in book history, cultural history, family history, and the history of the Netherlands.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baggerman, Arianne

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Verlagswesen
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Buchgeschichte, Bibliotheksgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Unternehmensgeschichte, Einzelne Branchen und Unternehmer
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
List of Abbrevations
Acknowledgments

Introduction
From Clutter Beast to Ghost Writer. The Invisible Hand in a Family Archive

CHAPTER 1
Destined for Each Other. Making the Acquaintance of Pieter Blussé

CHAPTER 2
Moving Up in the World. The Firm of Abraham Blussé & Son, c. 1771

CHAPTER 3
A Bookseller with ‘a Few Friends’. Social Network and Political Engagement

CHAPTER 4
The Publishing Trade in the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century

CHAPTER 5
From Reader to Publisher, the third Blussé Generation: Building a Family Empire

CHAPTER 6
A Necrology of Knowledge, Culture and Folly: the Publisher’s List and the Invisible Hand in the Archive

EPILOGUE

Appendices
Appendix I List of A. Blussé and Son
Appendix II Average number of printed copies per genre in the period 1797-1818

Notes/Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Arianne Baggerman teaches history at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and holds the Tiele chair in the history of the book at the University of Amsterdam. She published about several aspects of book history. She directed a research project on the development of autobiographical writing in the 18th and 19th centuries. She co-authored Child of the Enlightenment: Revolutionary Europe Reflected in a Boyhood Diary (Brill 2009) and co-edited Controlling Time and Shaping the Self (Brill 2011).