Hanauer book cover

In June 1775, a number of so-called imperial booksellers held a book fair in the Hessian city of Hanau for the first time , at which mainly pirated prints of the then popular north German publishing houses were exchanged. This counter-fair to the Leipzig Book Fair , which was dominant at the time, was mainly attended by South German and Austrian publishers, but was unable to establish itself and was already banned by the imperial authorities in Vienna in the year of its creation. The best-known initiators of the Hanau book cover , which even had its own catalog of the fair , were the Viennese reprinter Johann Thomas von Trattner and the Frankfurt publisher F. Varrentrapp. In 1778 the Hanau book cover was discontinued due to a lack of popularity and a lack of visitors.

See also

• Emphasis
• Pirated printing
• Philipp Erasmus Reich
• Book trade in the 18th century

literature

• Hanauer book cover. In: Lexicon of the entire book industry. Volume III. (2nd Edition). Verlag Anton Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, p. 345.
• Reinhard Wittmann : History of the German book trade. 2., through Edition. CH Beck, Munich 1999.