RT Book, Section T1 Juan Tomás Favario and the Paper Trade in Early Modern Spain or the Supply of Paper as a New Modality of Publishing A1 Rial Costas, Benito AB The study of paper extends across several disciplines, but in none of them has it reached the point where its relevance for studying printing and publishing is immediately obvious and can be easily interpreted. On the one hand, librarians and bibliographers often catalogue and list paper watermarks, specifying their origins and working towards a common nomenclature and consistent procedures and measurements for recording paper’s properties. On the other hand, historians have mainly been concerned with the production, marketing, and sale of paper as a wholesale commodity. Spanish scholarship has not been an exception to these approaches, but, as is the case with so many other aspects of book history, much research still remains to be done on early modern Spain’s paper and paper trade. A relevant number of documents about paper purchases, traders, and names have been discovered and mentioned in different academic works, but we still lack a monograph on paper in early modern Spain. We therefore only have an unclear picture of what kinds of paper Castilian paper mills made, papers traders sold, and printers used. PB Brill SN 978-90-04-42399-2 SN 978-90-04-42400-5 YR 2021 FD 2021 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/99202 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/99202 LA eng NO Rial Costas, B. (2021). "Chapter 5 Juan Tomás Favario and the Paper Trade in Early Modern Spain or the Supply of Paper as a New Modality of Publishing". In The Paper Trade in Early Modern Europe. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004424005_006 DS Docta Complutense RD 18 abr 2025