Contents

pp.：  5 – 16

Acknowledgments

pp.：  17 – 6

List of Illustrations

pp.：  7 – 14

Abbreviations

pp.：  15 – 18

Introduction

pp.：  19 – 32

From Clutter Beast to Ghost Writer. The Invisible Hand in a Family Archive

pp.：  19 – 32

1. Destined for Each Other. Making the Acquaintance of Pieter Blussé

pp.：  33 – 114

Ancestry

pp.：  36 – 42

Upbringing and Education

pp.：  43 – 55

Status, Wealth and Connections

pp.：  56 – 75

Letters to Sophia

pp.：  76 – 114

2. Moving Up in the World. The Firm of Abraham Blussé & Son, c. 1771

pp.：  115 – 170

Exploring the Market. New Developments in the Book Trade in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century

pp.：  115 – 147

The Entrepreneurial Spirit of Abraham and Pieter Blussé

pp.：  148 – 170

3. A Bookseller with ‘a few friends’: Social Network and Political Engagement

pp.：  171 – 244

A Clubbable Man

pp.：  173 – 175

The Dutch Patriots

pp.：  176 – 200

Restoration of the House of Orange

pp.：  201 – 211

The Batavian Period

pp.：  212 – 244

4. The Pubishing Trade in the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century

pp.：  245 – 372

The paper. He can’t go a day without it. An analysis of booksellers’ advertisements

pp.：  245 – 271

Part 1: Great Ambitions in a Small Market. A Diptych: Blussé and Holtrop

pp.：  272 – 295

Part 2: Long Haul: Blussé’s Complete Description of Trades and Occupations

pp.：  296 – 351

‘A Consequential Ill that Freedom Draws.’ The Conflict between an Editor and His Publishers.

pp.：  352 – 372

5. From reader to publisher, the third Blussé generation: building a family empire

pp.：  373 – 438

‘The Best-intentioned Father’: Upbringing and Education

pp.：  373 – 412

Structure of the Firm

pp.：  413 – 421

Yet Another Offshoot: Adriaan’s Fortunes

pp.：  422 – 438

6. A Necrology of Knowledge, Culture and Folly: The Publisher’s List and the Invisible Hand in the Archive

pp.：  439 – 526

Profile of a Publisher

pp.：  439 – 443

Hints from the Publisher

pp.：  444 – 473

Topography of the Publisher’s List

pp.：  474 – 505

The Invisible Hand in the Family Archive

pp.：  506 – 526

Epilogue

pp.：  527 – 548

The singing journeymen printers: A synthesis

pp.：  527 – 548

APPENDIX I

pp.：  549 – 549

PUBLISHER’S LIST A. BLUSSÉ, PERCENTAGE/PERIOD

pp.：  549 – 549

APPENDIX II

pp.：  550 – 572

AVERAGE PRINT RUNS PER GENRE, 1797-1818

pp.：  550 – 550

Bibliography

pp.：  551 – 562

Index of Names

pp.：  563 – 572