Publishing Policies and Family Strategies

Arianne Baggerman teaches history at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and holds the Tiele chair in the history of the book at the University of Amsterdam. She published about several aspects of book history. She directed a research project on the development of autobiographical writing in the 18th and 19th centuries. She co-authored Child of the Enlightenment: Revolutionary Europe Reflected in a Boyhood Diary (Brill 2009) and co-edited Controlling Time and Shaping the Self (Brill 2011).

• List of IllustrationsList of AbbrevationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionFrom Clutter Beast to Ghost Writer. The Invisible Hand in a Family ArchiveCHAPTER 1Destined for Each Other. Making the Acquaintance of Pieter BlusséCHAPTER 2Moving Up in the World. The Firm of Abraham Blussé & Son, c. 1771CHAPTER 3 A Bookseller with ‘a Few Friends’. Social Network and Political EngagementCHAPTER 4The Publishing Trade in the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth CenturyCHAPTER 5 From Reader to Publisher, the third Blussé Generation: Building a Family EmpireCHAPTER 6A Necrology of Knowledge, Culture and Folly: the Publisher’s List and the Invisible Hand in the ArchiveEPILOGUEAppendicesAppendix I List of A. Blussé and SonAppendix II Average number of printed copies per genre in the period 1797-1818Notes/BibliographyIndex