ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the market for reference and didactic books in Portugal and Brazil from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. Focusing on booksellers’ activity in transatlantic book trade, it situates the circulation of books and the shaping of readership in the Luso-Brazilian world within an Atlantic history framework. In doing so, it highlights cultural and material exchanges between Brazil, Portugal, and other European countries, such as England and France. It further looks at the interplay between censorship and book trade in Portuguese America, analysing how the relocation of the Portuguese royal family to Brazil had an effect on the colonial book market for grammar books, dictionaries, and teaching manuals.
