Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 493 pages)
,
illustrations, maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300122616
,
0300181639
,
030017716X
,
9780300122619
,
9780300181630
,
9780300177169
Content:
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
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-455) and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Raven, James, 1959- Business of books
Language:
English
Author information:
Raven, James 1959-
