A Changing View from Amsterdam : Where Next with Book History?

David McKitterick focuses on some aspects of the international trade in both new and old books to explore how the history of the book might be developed in the future.

McKitterick concentrates on bookselling as a means of coming to a fuller understanding of how to approach an international history of the book.

The Frederik Muller lectures are named after the founder of the Bibliotheek van het Boekenvak (Library of the Book Trade), which is preserved at the Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam.

This first lecture of the series was organized by the Special Collections in cooperation with the Department of Book History and Manuscript Studies, the Society for the Library of the Book Trade and the Institute for Culture and History of the University of Amsterdam.