Bookseller business circulars

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Bookseller business newsletters usually refer to short, historical, printed communications within the book trade world .

Content

The mostly one- or two-sided prints contain information about changes to company data and serve as archives since the 19th century as a source , for example,

  1. Start-ups ,
  2. Names of owners or changes to the same,
  3. Name changes
  4. the end of companies (extinction),
  5. or transfers of individual rights such as powers of representation to other companies by the company owners and / or their authorized employees (e.g. through powers of attorney or power of attorney ).

In addition, bookselling business newsletters often contain a great deal of additional information, such as the résumés of company founders, family relationships of those involved in, in or between companies, sometimes references to product catalogs from publishers or announcements of the same. Such archival materials from booksellers "represent a fundamental source for the corporate and personal history of the book industry , especially due to the diverse historical references within the collection ."

The collection in the German Museum of Books and Writing

history

The author and bookseller Friedrich Eduard Berger (around 1815–1891), who worked in Guben , was one of the first to set up a collection of bookseller business circulars. From the information contained therein, he originally wanted to write a treatise on the history of the German book trade, but then sold the collection to the library of the German Booksellers' Association in Leipzig . There came further, in some cases significant, increases from the estates and collections of other booksellers, such as the donation of the collection of Johannes Otto Hermann Schulz (around 1840–1909) and his father Otto August Schulz (1803–1860). With the data collected in this way, for example, the addresses of booksellers could be recorded for the period from 1839 to 1888 and were reflected, for example, in the address book of the German book trade from 1892.

Today the collection of bookselling business circulars as well as the archive and library of the Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhandels zu Leipzig is owned by the German Museum of Books and Writing (DBSM).

Database of bookselling business newsletters

The database of the bookselling business Circular contained the end of 2013 about 25,000 bookselling business Circular in around 65,000 copies with part-time bookseller sources for the period from 1737 to the mid-20th century. In the Allegro-HANS - database of dBsm not only large amounts of essential were the end of 2013. Data German companies entered, but in some cases even those foreign companies that were with German booksellers in context.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Kristina Barth, Hannelore Effelsberg: Booksellers Business Circular - Introduction ( Memento of December 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) of March 9, 2004, in the version of December 16, 2013 permanently stored in the Internet Archive
  2. ↑ a b Personal data (GND) zu Berger, Friedrich Eduard in the catalog of the German National Library