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Author:   Jeroen Salman
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   29
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.633kg
ISBN:  

9789004252844

ISBN 10:   9004252843
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   18 October 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter One: Reputation and Representation in collaboration with Karen Bowen Confusing terminology Authorities and Booksellers A growing danger in England Tolerance, repression and economic interests in the Netherlands Pedlars in the World of the Imagination: Textual Representations Dutch literary representations English textual representations Pedlars in the World of the Imagination: The Visual Perspective English ballad singers Dutch images Pedlars and Their Self-Image The struggle for life Battling a bad reputation Distributor of respectable goods Conclusion: Stereotypes, Motives and Change Chapter Two: The Pedlar in the English Distribution Network The Scale of Itinerant Distribution Organisation and control Itinerant book trade Number of pedlar licenses Pedlars and hawkers with printed wares Itinerant booksellers in London Itinerant book trade in the provinces: Devon and Exeter Categorisation and Trade Practices Occasional pedlars Pedlars of books and other goods Pedlars with printed wares exclusively Ballad sellers and singers News pedlars Chapbooks, prints, almanacs, children's books and other printed wares Conclusion: Distribution Networks and Patterns in England Chapter Three: The Pedlar in the Dutch Distribution Network The Scale of Itinerant Distribution Amsterdam Leiden Utrecht Categorisation, Networks and Trade Practices Occasional Pedlars Pedlars with books and other wares Pedlars with printed wares exclusively Specialist pedlars Conclusion: Distribution Networks and Patterns in the Netherlands Conclusion: A Comparative Perspective on Itinerant Networks Bibliography Archival and Manuscript Sources Published Primary Sources Electronic Sources and Databases Secondary Sources

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This is a commendably ambitious project. Not content to investigate the history of Dutch pedlars of printed matter across more than two centuries, Jeroen Salman provides a thorough comparison with itinerant sellers in England, while maintaining a clear view of the wider European context. In the process he assembles a wealth of new information about Dutch and English pedlars, hawkers, ballad-singers, and news-vendors gleaned from a vast range of sources. While London and Amsterdam are central to the study, the author uses records from Utrecht, Leiden, and Exeter to furnish detailed case studies of the situation in provincial towns. [...] Jeroen Salman is to be congratulated not only for identifying those aspects of the trade in cheap print in both countries hitherto largely ignored but also for demonstrating what can be done by exploiting to the full an immense variety of documentary, textual and visual resources. Maureen Bell, Newark. In: The Library, 7.16.3 (September 2015), pp. 346-349.

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Jeroen Salman, Ph.D. (1997) is Assistant Professor Comparative Literature at Utrecht University. He has published on early modern popular culture, literature and book history, including the volume New Perspectives in book history. Contributions from the Low Countries (Walburg Pers, 2006).

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