Format:
XIII, 210 S
,
Ill., Kt
,
22cm
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
1873040334
,
1884718450
Series Statement:
Publishing pathways
Content:
For more than 400 years the Stationers' Company has provided a focus for the conduct of the trade in print. Booksellers, stationers, printers, binders and other producers and dealers united with a common purpose to protect their trade interests, and to exert control in such matters as apprenticeship and the number of master printers. The English Stock and the regulation of the printing of almanacs, both of which were profitable activities over a long period, exemplify this role. The Stationers' Company also effectively restricted the production and sale of the printed materials which were registered in its Entry Books at Stationers' Hall. In this it has seemed to be closely aligned with the interest of the State in regulating and controlling a powerful medium for dissent and subversion. Recent research has shown that the Company's relationship with the book trade as a whole was more complex than had previously been imagined. Some scholars now emphasize the limitations of the power exercised by the Company over print publication, whilst others have shown that it was very closely linked to political and religious networks, especially in the Tudor and Stuart periods. Equally, whilst fundamentally metropolitan in interest and character, it is now clear that the Company had an important role to play in the regions. These are some of the themes of this volume, in which the Stationers' Company, in its many aspects, is shown to be central to any study of the history of the book trade in Britain.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Papers originally presented at a conference
Language:
English
Keywords:
Großbritannien
;
Buchhandel
;
Stationers' Company
;
Geschichte 1550-1990
;
Stationers' Company
;
Geschichte 1550-1990
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Myers, Robin 1967-
