The morning arrival of book boats was a welcome sight to Chen Zhan, a distinguished scholar and book collector. As he notes in the comment accompanying his poem, there were no book stores in Xiashi, the town in central Haining county northeast of Hangzhou where he was born and lived for many years: these itinerant peddlers were his only commercial source for books. His remark is of interest to book historians on two counts.2 First, it suggests that even in the economically prosperous

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远书舟声：十六至十九世纪江南的流动图书贸易

书舟的清晨到来，对著名学者、藏书家陈展来说，是一个可喜可贺的景象。正如他在诗所附的评论中所说，他出生并居住多年的杭州市东北部海宁县中部小镇下市没有书店，这些流动小贩是他唯一的书籍商业来源。历史学家对他的评论有两点兴趣。2 首先，它表明即使在经济繁荣的时期