A History of British Publishing

Contents:
Introduction: The Book Trade Before Printing

Part 1: The Press in Chains, 1476-1695
The Book Revolution
Books in the Marketplace
The Foundation of an Industry
A Taste of Freedom
The Licensed Press

Part 2: License and Liberty, 1695-1800
Response to Freedom
The Trade and the Law
The Expanding Trade
Periodicals and Part Books
Publishers and Booksellers

Part 3: The First of the Mass Media, 1800-1900
The Book Trade and the Industrial Revolution
The Organization of the Trade in the Nineteenth Century
The Age of the Novel
The Diffusion of Knowledge
The Publishers and the Authors

Part 4: The Trade in the Twentieth Century
The Customs of the Trade
Old Ways and New Directions
Allen Lane's Idea.