Detail of the copperplate print: you see the bookseller's head and a few of the Book boxes in more detail.

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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