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Frequently asked Questions

Q. 1: How do I search novels with this biography?
Q. 2: Can it be that this bibliography does not list the novel I was looking for?
Q. 3: Most of the title page scans have such a poor quality on the screen, couldn't you offer any better images?
Q. 4: I personally own one of these titles - how much is it worth?
Q. 5: You say you appreciate contributions of title page scans, first hand bibliographical information, little sumaries of contents... how do I contribute them?
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Question 1
How do I search novels with this biography?
 

This biography has three surfaces - you reach them via the naviagtion links on each page - look out for links to:

link "Years",
link "Places"
link "Topics"

Only the "Years"-pages offer, however, all the titles we are presently listing. The "Places"-pages are an experiment and the "Topics"-pages lead to individual biographical projects which contributed to the present bibliography.

You can hence browse on the surfaces mentioned, the link symbol indicates a link to the respective library page with more detailed information - as in the following example:

 
  THE| HISTORY| OF THE| LIFE| AND| ADVENTURES| OF| Mr. DUNCAN CAMPBELL| A| Gentleman, who tho' Deaf and Dumb, writes| down any Stranger's Name at first Sight;| with their future Contingencies of Fortune.| Now Living| In Exeter Court over-against the Savoy in the| Strand.| [rule]| Gentem quidem nullam video neque tam humanam atque doctam;| neque tam immanem tamque barbaram, quæ non significari fu-|tura & a qusbusdam[!] intelligi prædicique posse censeat.| Cicero de Divinatione, lib. x.| [rule]| LONDON:| Printed for E. CURLL: And sold by W. MEARS and| T. JAUNCY without Temple Bar, W. MEADOWS| in Cornhill, A. BETTESWORTH in Pater-Noster-Row,| W. LEWIS in Covent Garden, and W. GRAVES in St. James's Street. M.DCC.XX. (Price. 5 s.)link
 

The whole project is desigend to invite rambling visitors who look out for titles they have not thought of - though they were on the same market at the same time. Yet you can also search titles you already know. Use the search tool on the index-page.link or the folowing search box - it offers two options: The default setting "Marteau's library" will lead you to the individual "library pages" with in depth information on individual titles. The second option "Site" includes all the surface pages which list more titles than presently equipped with detailed information.

 


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Question 2:
Can it be that this bibliography does not list the novel I was looking for?
 

Yes - and, this is all too likely. This bibliography offers on the pages for the yearly productions:

The listings for the years 1700-1730 offered by W. H. McBurney's A Check List of English Prose Fiction: 1700-1739 (Cambridge, Mass., 1960). McBurney included translations into English, and he mentioned later editons of all the titles he listed. He excluded, however, editions of titles first published before 1700 - a deplorable decision for anyone wondering about the market presence of works from Cervantes' Don Quixote to Fénelon's Telémaque; a deplorable decision also for anyone investigating into the market of "chap-books." Readers interested in these productions have at the moment to be refered to Esdaile, Arundel's A List of English Tales and Prose Romances Printed before 1740, 1: 1475-1642/ 2: 1643-1739 (London, 1912).

The entries for German titles 1680-1730 offered by Ernst Weber and Christine Mithal, in their Deutsche Originalromane zwischen 1680 und 1780. Eine Bibliographie mit Besitzernachweisen (Berlin, 1983). The authors only sporadically mentioned second and third editions and translations into German, and they excluded earlier titles still on the market. Readers interested in these titles will get some answers from Gerhard Dünnhaupt's, Personalbibliographien zu Drucken des Barock, 1-6 (Stuttgart, 1990-93) - provided the author they are interested in has been identified. Neither Dünnhaupt nor Weber/Mithal attempted to produce market bibiographies including all titles readers could get at the time.

The biography offers in depth information - listings leading to individual library pages - where contributors provided them - with:

Inger Leemans' bibliography of Dutch pornography on the European market.link

Hans Wagener's bibliography of Christian Friedrich Hunold's (Menantes) Europäische Höfe (1705)link with all their later volumes and editions.

Stephan Kraft's bibliography of Anton Ulrich's Römische Octavia (1677)link again with all later volumes and editions.

The complete German and English production Olaf Simons established while working on Marteaus Europa oder Der Roman, bevor er Literatur wurde. Eine Untersuchung des deutschen und englischen Buchangebots der Jahre 1710 bis 1720 (Amsterdam/ Atlanta, 2001) - access these entries with the pages for yeras from 1710link to 1720.link (The author is grateful for corrections especially where he failed to write proper English).

Individual contributions by MaryBeth Ashbeelink and Elise S. Jameslink who provided us with scans and information of individual titels.

 
 
Question 3
Most of the title page scans have such a poor quality on the screen, couldn't you offer any better images?
 

This is a browser-problem. If you want to have beautiful images on the sceen you have to provide gray-scale images - they, however give poor results when printed with a regular printer. We regularly decided to equip the library pages with title-page reproductions which will be of further use to our readers when reproduced on paper. Where provided we also included colour reproductions which will lead, however, to bad results when printed with a black and white printer. There simply is no optimal solution. If you need higher resolution image files contact olaf.simons@pierre-marteau.com.link

 
 
Question 4
I personally own one of these titles - how much is it worth?
 

This is actually the most frequently asked question. As supply and demand create the price we can only ask you to find out what others demand for the same or a similar title. The following web-sites offer you their offers:

For French books see especially:

For German books:

 
 
Question 5
You say you appreciate contributions of title page scans, first hand bibliographical information, little sumaries of contents... how do I contribute them?
 

Contact olaf.simons@pierre-marteau.com.link

 

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