Jane A. Bernstein
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195141085
- eISBN:
- 9780199871421
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195141085.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
This chapter moves to the wider international world of book distribution. It discusses the complicated networks that existed between Venetian bookmen with agents, book carriers, and foreign printers. ...
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This chapter moves to the wider international world of book distribution. It discusses the complicated networks that existed between Venetian bookmen with agents, book carriers, and foreign printers. It also provides information on the trades routes throughout the Italian peninsula, as well as across the Alps to northern Europe. The chapter details northern European book fairs and explains such marketing tools as book-fair trade lists and printers' broadside catalogues. It concludes with a discussion of individual and institutional customers and collectors, who purchased music books.Less
This chapter moves to the wider international world of book distribution. It discusses the complicated networks that existed between Venetian bookmen with agents, book carriers, and foreign printers. It also provides information on the trades routes throughout the Italian peninsula, as well as across the Alps to northern Europe. The chapter details northern European book fairs and explains such marketing tools as book-fair trade lists and printers' broadside catalogues. It concludes with a discussion of individual and institutional customers and collectors, who purchased music books.
Jane A. Bernstein
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195141085
- eISBN:
- 9780199871421
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195141085.003.0007
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
This chapter focuses on the two most important music printing presses of 16th-century Venice: the House of Scotto and the House of Gardano. It presents histories of the two dynastic firms, tracing ...
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This chapter focuses on the two most important music printing presses of 16th-century Venice: the House of Scotto and the House of Gardano. It presents histories of the two dynastic firms, tracing their development from the founding of the presses through several generations of bookmen.Less
This chapter focuses on the two most important music printing presses of 16th-century Venice: the House of Scotto and the House of Gardano. It presents histories of the two dynastic firms, tracing their development from the founding of the presses through several generations of bookmen.
Philip Waller
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199541201
- eISBN:
- 9780191717284
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199541201.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
The extensive space devoted to literature in daily newspapers of every kind, as well as in specialist periodicals, was a leading feature of the period. This chapter addresses the thorny question of ...
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The extensive space devoted to literature in daily newspapers of every kind, as well as in specialist periodicals, was a leading feature of the period. This chapter addresses the thorny question of the influence wielded by book reviews through a wide survey of contemporary opinion; so too are the merits of anonymous versus signed articles and the opportunities for manipulation in the book trade, as evidenced by favouritism shown to authors who were friendly with particular reviewers or whose publisher ran an expensive advertising campaign. Authors frequently doubled as reviewers. Those whose experiences are featured here include Walter Besant, Robert Browning, Shan Bullock, Samuel Butler, Hall Caine, Joseph Conrad, Marie Corelli, Pearl Craigie (‘John Oliver Hobbes’), Thomas Hardy, Alice Meynell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edward Thomas, Anthony Trollope, Hugh Walpole, H.G.Wells, and Virginia Woolf. The tastes and philosophies of the leading bookmen — Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, and George Saintsbury — are examined.Less
The extensive space devoted to literature in daily newspapers of every kind, as well as in specialist periodicals, was a leading feature of the period. This chapter addresses the thorny question of the influence wielded by book reviews through a wide survey of contemporary opinion; so too are the merits of anonymous versus signed articles and the opportunities for manipulation in the book trade, as evidenced by favouritism shown to authors who were friendly with particular reviewers or whose publisher ran an expensive advertising campaign. Authors frequently doubled as reviewers. Those whose experiences are featured here include Walter Besant, Robert Browning, Shan Bullock, Samuel Butler, Hall Caine, Joseph Conrad, Marie Corelli, Pearl Craigie (‘John Oliver Hobbes’), Thomas Hardy, Alice Meynell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edward Thomas, Anthony Trollope, Hugh Walpole, H.G.Wells, and Virginia Woolf. The tastes and philosophies of the leading bookmen — Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, and George Saintsbury — are examined.
