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The business of books : booksellers and the English book trade, 1450-1850 /

In 1450 very few English men or women were personally familiar with a book; but by 1850, the great majority of people daily encountered books, magazines, or newspapers. This text explores the history of this fundamental transformation.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Raven, James, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the enterprise of booksellers
  • The arrival of print: domestic and foreign
  • Markets and martyrs: early modern commerce
  • The late Stuart trade: new horizons
  • Investing in books: the supremacy of the booksellers
  • High and low: locating the trades
  • Boosting demand: stationers, printers, and sellers
  • Challenges and survivals: the late eighteenth century
  • Promoting the wares
  • Risking failure
  • Steam and stamps: nineteenth-century transformation.