Fairs, markets and the itinerant book trade / edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote.

New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press ; London : British Library, 2007.

xv, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

"Based on papers originally given at the 27th annual conference on book trade history, sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association and held, in 2005, at the Society of Antiquaries"--P. vii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Omnium totius orbis emporiorum compendium" : the Frankfurt Fair in the early modern period / John L. Flood -- Itinerant booksellers, printers, and pedlars in sixteenth-century Spain and Portugal / Clive Griffin -- Murder, debt and retribution in the Italico-Franco-Spanish book trade : the Beraud-Michel-Ruiz affair, 1586-91 / Ian Maclean -- "To all booksellers, country chapmen, hawkers and others" : how the population of East Anglia obtained its printed materials / David Stoker -- Watching the pedlar's movements: itinerant distribution in the urban Netherlands / Jeroen Salman -- The Scottish chapman / John Morris -- The book trade in public spaces: London street booksellers, 1690-1850 / Michael Harris.