Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781139056014
Content:
The years 1830–1914 witnessed a revolution in the manufacture and use of books as great as that in the fifteenth century. Using new technology in printing, paper-making and binding, publishers worked with authors and illustrators to meet ever-growing and more varied demands from a population seeking books at all price levels. The essays by leading book historians in this volume show how books became cheap, how publishers used the magazine and newspaper markets to extend their influence, and how book ownership became universal for the first time. The fullest account ever published of the nineteenth-century revolution in printing, publishing and bookselling, this volume brings The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain up to a point when the world of books took on a recognisably modern form
In:
6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521866248
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. The Cambridge history of the book in Britain ; 6: 1830 - 1914 Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009 ISBN 9780521866248
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521866248
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
DOI:
10.1017/CHOL9780521866248
Author information:
McKitterick, David 1948-
