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Order Nr. 92772 FAIRS, MARKETS AND THE ITINERANT BOOK TRADE. Robin Myers, Michael Harris, Giles...

FAIRS, MARKETS AND THE ITINERANT BOOK TRADE.

New Castle, Delaware and London, UK: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2007. 6 x 8.5 inches. hardcover. 240 pages. From the Frankfurt book fairs in the sixteenth century to the Farringdon Road barrows in the twentieth, fairs and markets have played a crucial role in the circulation of books. Traveling peddlers and itinerant printers have also acted as intermediaries in distributing books beyond the reach of conventional shops and in spreading trade practices..... READ MORE

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Introduction ...........................................................page vii
List of Contributors..........................................................XI
List of those attending the Conference......................................XIII
 

John L. Flood......'Omnium totius orbis emporiorum compendium:' the 
                   FrankfUrt Fair in the early modern period...................1

Clive Griffin......Itinerant Booksellers, Printers, and Pedlars in 
                   Sixteenth-Century Spain and Portugal.......................43

Ian Maclean........Murder, Debt and Retribution in the Italico-Franco¬
                   Spanish Book Trade: the Beraud-Michel-Ruiz affair, 
                   1586-91....................................................61

David Stoker.......'To all Booksellers, Country Chapmen, Hawkers and 
                   Others:' how the population of East Anglia obtained 
                   its printed materials.....................................107

Jeroen Salman......Watching the Pedlar's Movements: itinerant 
                   distribution in the urban Netherlands.....................137

John Morris........The Scottish Chapman......................................159 

Michael Harris.....The Book Trade in Public Spaces:
                   London street booksellers, 1690-1850......................187

Index........................................................................213