"This edited collection offers in seventeen chapters the latest scholarship on book catalogues in early modern Europe. Contributors discuss the role that these catalogues played in bookselling and book auctions, as well as in guiding the tastes of book collectors and inspiring some of the...

Part 1. Networks of Books -- Selling Luther : Printing Counterfeits in Reformation Augsburg / Drew B. Thomas -- Market Realities : Christopher Plantin's International Networks in an Ever-Changing World / Julianne Simpson -- Far Off from the Well's Head : The Production and Circulation of Books...

"This edited volume explores the development of the European book world between 1650 and 1750, concentrating on changes in publishing strategies, practices of censorship, the circulation of second-hand books and the building of libraries. Its essays discuss this critical, but much neglected...