The business of books : booksellers and the English book trade, 1450-1850 / James Raven.
2007
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Title
The business of books : booksellers and the English book trade, 1450-1850 / James Raven.
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2007.
Description
xviii, 493 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-455) and index.
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.
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.
Call number
Z325 .R27 2007
Folger accession
268914