The International Network of the Bookseller Wolfgang Gerle (1770-1790) : A Contribution to an Analysis of the Dissemination of Information in the Czech Lands
2011
Abstract
In her study, the author carried out an analysis of commercial practices of the Prague bookseller Wolfgang Gerle between the years 1770-1790. This study shows that although the standard of literary information and the supply of printed matter on offer was diverse and brisk in terms of European book distribution, his competitive ambitions were curtailed by various restrictions, so typical of a society whose path to modernity was at its very beginning