The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age.

摘要

In September 1999, in my capacity as Curator of the Dutch and Flemish Collections at the British Library, I initiated the organization of an international conference entitled The Bookshop of the World: The Role of the how Countries in the Book-Trade, 1473-1941 (the proceedings of which were published by Hes & De Graaf, 2001). The subtitle was there to signal a deliberate effort to get away from the narrowness of and the obsession with the Dutch Golden Age. It is flattering that, two decades later, the same title was chosen by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen for their joint study on a comparable topic. However, its subtitle, 'Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age', marks a significant difference in approach.