![]() The following essay attempts to navigate the shoals of cliometrics and offer a contextual frame within which we might begin asking questions about the relationships among stationers in mid-Jacobean London. ![]() Nonetheless, a number of admirable studies in the area of the early modern English book trade have demonstrated what can be gained through a thoughtful application of quantitative approaches. For the unwary these tools are also accompanied by the potential traps of unreliable data, anachronistic modeling, and statistical misapplication. In particular, the methods of quantitative history, often called cliometrics, offer many analytical advantages, derived in part from the broad perspective that large population samples afford and in part from the numerous descriptive and inferential tools available. ![]() A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE LONDON BOOK TRADE 1614-1618ĪS STUDENTS OF THE BOOK have borrowed tools of the historian in their attempts to gain insights into the world of early printing and publishing, they have also faced the limits inherent in such instruments. ![]()
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