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Copperplate print of the German bookseller Johann Christoph Zimmermann: http://diglib.hab.de/wdb.php?pointer=0&dir=varia%2Fportrait%2Fa-24828 A man standing at a writing desk, writing a letter with a quill. In the back are boxes, lots of boxes. And each box is labelled with the printed sheets of the very publication. If you would have paid extra, these stored papers were bound for you.

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Copperplate print of the German bookseller Johann Christoph Zimmermann: http://diglib.hab.de/wdb.php?pointer=0&dir=varia%2Fportrait%2Fa-24828 A man standing at a writing desk, writing a letter with a quill. In the back are boxes, lots of boxes. And each box is labelled with the printed sheets of the very publication. If you would have paid extra, these stored papers were bound for you.
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Daniel Bellingradt (dbellingradt@historians.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 08:09:30 JST Daniel Bellingradt

Were book shops of Europe's past really full of books? Well, here is an #earlymodern bookseller from #Dresden, Germany, in front of his boxes. Yes, boxes, not books.
In these boxes unfolded printed sheets (of a certain publication) were stored. This is what you would have seen, next to small amounts of bound books and small publications, in a typical early modern book shop. So #bookhistory is sometimes a history of boxes too.
#histodons #bookstodon #books #bookshop

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