Competition in the European book market: prices and privileges (fifteenth-seventeenth centuries)

Contents

Early modern book prices lost and found / Angela Nuovo, Joran Proot, Diane E. Booton -- Book prices from the Officina Plantiniana in a comparative perspective (1586-1631) / Francesco Ammannati & Joran Proot -- Sales and trading in Frankfurt: Feyerabend's prices in perspective (1565-1597) / Saskia Limbach -- Le marché des livres juridiques à Lyon et à Venise au XVIe siècle / Renaud Milazzo -- The price of books in early modern Venice (1586-1600): a statistical analysis / Angela Nuovo & Francesca De Battisti -- Notes on Venetian monetary history from the medieval to the early modern era / Francesco Ammannati -- Renaissance publishers, market risks and empirical methods of assessment: a revised interpretation of Bernardo di Bernardo Giunti's 1600-1643 catalogue / Andrea Ottone -- The protection of the printing industry in Venice (1560-1580) / Erika Squassina -- An analysis of book prices in Paris: the first bookseller's catalogue of Simon de Colines, c.1540 / Diane E. Booton -- Deciphering the Antoni/De Franceschi partnership in Milan (c. 1588-1591): some preliminary observations / Kevin M. Stevens -- Torti, Giunta & Co.: a full programme of publishing legal editions (Venice 1507) / Maria Alessandra Panzanelli Fratoni.