The Bookshop of the World : Yale University Press : 9780300254792 : 0300254792 : 11 Aug 2020 : The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world's greatest bibliophiles&;&;an instant classic on Dutch book history&; (BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review) "[An] excellent contribution to book history."&;Robert Darnton, New York Review of Books   The Dutch Golden Age has long been seen as the age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, whose paintings captured the public imagination and came to represent the marvel that was the Dutch Republic. Yet there is another, largely overlooked marvel in the Dutch world of the seventeenth century: books. In this fascinating account, Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen show how the Dutch produced many more books than pictures and bought and owned more books per capita than any other part of Europe. Key innovations in marketing, book auctions, and newspaper advertising brought stability to a market where elsewhere publi