Vienne capitale de l’édition et du commerce du livre dans la monarchie des Habsbourg? Le point de vue de la Bohême
Vienna as a Capital City for Publishing and Bookselling in the Habsburg Monarchy? The Point of View of Bohemia

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses the role and position of Vienna, capital city of the Habsburg monarchy, as far as the Prague book market is concerned and compares this position to other important centers providing Bohemia with books (Saxony and South Germany). It so intends to question the existence of the Habsburg Monarchy as a cultural ensemble. Several booksellers who settled in Prague during the second half of the 18th century learned their profession in Vienna and many of them referred to Trattner as a model of entrepreneurship. Prague booksellers had nevertheless more regularly business relations (thanks to commissioners) with Leipzig than with Vienna. The overwhelming majority of the books they imported were printed in Saxony and northern Germany. Vienna’s weigh as a book provider increased at the very end of the century only. The paper gives a short comparative insight about the situation in Moravia to highlight the peculiarities of Bohemia’s situation within the Habsburg monarchy.

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