El mundillo del libro en la capital de Nueva España. Cajones, puestos y venta callejera (siglo XVIII)

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to demonstrate the relevance of small bookstores in Mexico City's book trade. Unpublished first-hand sources enable us to show the success of these small businesses in the second half of the eighteenth century, and, at the same time, highlight the existence of a large group of street sellers dealing in printed works. Both phenomena belong to a period when the Atlantic book trade and typographic production in New Spain were growing. Similarly, the article also demonstrates the close relationship between bookstore status and their location in the city, bearing in mind that the main-square bookstalls and nearby street sellers stood out for selling "popular" editions, minor and second-hand works.