Spreading the word : the distribution networks of print 1550-1850 / edited by Robin Myers and Michael Harris.

Spreading the word : the distribution networks of print 1550-1850 / edited by Robin Myers and Michael Harris.

Winchester, Hampshire : St. Paul's Bibliographies ; Detroit : Omnigraphics, 1990.

xii, 241 p. : ill. ; 22 cm

St. Paul's bibliographies

"This volume is based on the papers given at the eleventh annual conference on book trade history held at the Centre for Extra-Mural Studies, Birkbeck College (University of London)"--P. ix.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Wales and the London book trade before 1820 / Eiluned Rees
Scottish books for America in the mid-18th century / Warren McDougall
Printers and booksellers in Dublin 1800-1850 / Charles Benson
Publisher, pedlar, pot-poet: the changing character of the broadside trade, 1550-1640 / Tessa Watt
A few shillings for small books: the experiences of a flying stationer in the 18th century / Michael Harris
Single sheets from a country town: the example of Exeter / Ian Maxted
Local distribution networks in 18th-century England / C.Y. Ferdinand
Egerton Smith and the early 19th-century book trade in Liverpool / Michael Perkin
The country trade in books / John Feather
Appendix: A catalogue of Hamilton, Balfour and Neill publications / by Warren McDougall.

St. Paul's bibliographies.

Great Britain -- England.

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