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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Arianne BaggermanPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 32 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 1.075kg ISBN: 9789004257948ISBN 10: 9004257942 Pages: 554 Publication Date: 18 October 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsList 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 Blusse CHAPTER 2 Moving Up in the World. The Firm of Abraham Blusse & 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 Blusse 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. Blusse and Son Appendix II Average number of printed copies per genre in the period 1797-1818 Notes/Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationArianne 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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