Everyday Life in the German Book Trade: Friedrich Nicolai as Bookseller and Publisher in the Age of Enlightenment
(Part of the Penn State Series in the History of the Book Series)
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In his popular book The Germans (1982), Stanford historian Gordon Craig remarked: "When German intellectuals at the end of the eighteenth century talked of living in a Frederican age, they were sometimes referring not to the monarch in Sans Souci, but to his namesake, the Berlin bookseller Friedrich Nicolai." Such was the importance attributed to Nicolai's role in the intellectual life of his age by his own contemporaries. While long...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0271027975
ISBN13:9780271027975
Release Date:November 2000
Publisher:Penn State University Press
Length:440 Pages
Weight:1.40 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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