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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Raven, James, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]
Subjects:
Book industries and trade > Great Britain > History.
Publishers and publishing > Great Britain > History.
Printers > Great Britain > History.
Literature publishing > Great Britain > History.
Livres > Industrie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Imprimeurs > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Littérature > Édition > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Book industries and trade.
Literature publishing.
Printers.
Publishers and publishing.
Boekhandel.
Boekenproductie.
Great Britain.
Engeland.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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