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• Foreword List of illustrations List of abbreviations and archive names I. Historical research on reading and writing: from book ownership to the use of media II. Mirror of literacy: reading and writing in the diary (1624) of David Beck III. Aristocratic literacy: Pieter Teding van Berkhout and his `journal' (1669-1712) IV. Aural and eyewitness testimony: reading, writing, and discussions of current affairs in Jan de Boer's chronological journal (1747-1758) V. A devout reader and writer: literacy in Jacoba van Thiel's `account-book of the soul' (1767-1770) VI. Literacy in everyday life
• Appendix I: Reading behaviour in figures
• Appendix II: Titles of books mentioned in the diaries List of sources Bibliography Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Until recently, historians of reading have concentrated on book ownership and trying to map out a history of who read what. The reading experience has been a subject more difficult to research. As has been pointed out before, egodocuments can be valuable sources in this case. Following this lead, Literacy in Everyday Life focuses upon four early modern Dutch diaries in which readers document their daily life and in which they recount their reading. In the analysis, other ways in which these four readers communicated are also addressed, especially speech and writing. This book therefore provides an insight into the possible uses of literacy and the interaction between the printed, written and spoken word in the early modern Dutch Republic.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• List of Illustrations List of Abbrevations Acknowledgments Introduction From Clutter Beast to Ghost Writer. The Invisible Hand in a Family Archive
• CHAPTER 1 Destined for Each Other. Making the Acquaintance of Pieter Blusse
• CHAPTER 2 Moving Up in the World. The Firm of Abraham Blusse & Son, c. 1771
• CHAPTER 3 A Bookseller with `a Few Friends'. Social Network and Political Engagement
• CHAPTER 4 The Publishing Trade in the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century
• CHAPTER 5 From Reader to Publisher, the third Blusse Generation: Building a Family Empire
• CHAPTER 6 A Necrology of Knowledge, Culture and Folly: the Publisher's List and the Invisible Hand in the Archive EPILOGUE Appendices
• Appendix I List of A. Blusse and Son
• Appendix II Average number of printed copies per genre in the period 1797-1818 Notes/Bibliography Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This study analyses the development of the Dutch publishers and booksellers firm Blusse in connection with the history of the Blusse family between 1745 and 1830. The book offers new insight in the organization of the book trade, the theory and practice of copyright, competition and cooperation among publishers, book prices and print runs, including advertising and marketing. The history of the company is linked with that of the family, using letters and other autobiographical writings. Education, marriage policies, reading practices are among the subjects studied. Within the context of cultural developments, the influence of the Enlightenment, and the political upheavals in the period in the Netherlands, this book is both a detailed book history and a broadly based study of cultural change in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Foreword List of illustrations List of abbreviations and archive names I. Historical research on reading and writing: from book ownership to the use of media II. Mirror of literacy: reading and writing in the diary (1624) of David Beck III. Aristocratic literacy: Pieter Teding van Berkhout and his `journal' (1669-1712) IV. Aural and eyewitness testimony: reading, writing, and discussions of current affairs in Jan de Boer's chronological journal (1747-1758) V. A devout reader and writer: literacy in Jacoba van Thiel's `account-book of the soul' (1767-1770) VI. Literacy in everyday life
• Appendix I: Reading behaviour in figures
• Appendix II: Titles of books mentioned in the diaries List of sources Bibliography Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Until recently, historians of reading have concentrated on book ownership and trying to map out a history of who read what. The reading experience has been a subject more difficult to research. As has been pointed out before, egodocuments can be valuable sources in this case. Following this lead, Literacy in Everyday Life focuses upon four early modern Dutch diaries in which readers document their daily life and in which they recount their reading. In the analysis, other ways in which these four readers communicated are also addressed, especially speech and writing. This book therefore provides an insight into the possible uses of literacy and the interaction between the printed, written and spoken word in the early modern Dutch Republic.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• List of Illustrations List of Abbrevations Acknowledgments Introduction From Clutter Beast to Ghost Writer. The Invisible Hand in a Family Archive
• CHAPTER 1 Destined for Each Other. Making the Acquaintance of Pieter Blusse
• CHAPTER 2 Moving Up in the World. The Firm of Abraham Blusse & Son, c. 1771
• CHAPTER 3 A Bookseller with `a Few Friends'. Social Network and Political Engagement
• CHAPTER 4 The Publishing Trade in the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century
• CHAPTER 5 From Reader to Publisher, the third Blusse Generation: Building a Family Empire
• CHAPTER 6 A Necrology of Knowledge, Culture and Folly: the Publisher's List and the Invisible Hand in the Archive EPILOGUE Appendices
• Appendix I List of A. Blusse and Son
• Appendix II Average number of printed copies per genre in the period 1797-1818 Notes/Bibliography Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This study analyses the development of the Dutch publishers and booksellers firm Blusse in connection with the history of the Blusse family between 1745 and 1830. The book offers new insight in the organization of the book trade, the theory and practice of copyright, competition and cooperation among publishers, book prices and print runs, including advertising and marketing. The history of the company is linked with that of the family, using letters and other autobiographical writings. Education, marriage policies, reading practices are among the subjects studied. Within the context of cultural developments, the influence of the Enlightenment, and the political upheavals in the period in the Netherlands, this book is both a detailed book history and a broadly based study of cultural change in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)