Printing Places: Locations of Book Production & Distribution since 1500

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2005
Author
Editor: John Hinks
Editor: Catherine Armstrong
Language
English
Number of Pages
208 pp.
Publisher
British Library
City
London, England
Region
Europe
Library Type
Circulating Libraries
Social/Subscription Libraries
Chronological Period
16th century
17th century
1800-1849
1850-1899
18th century
ISBN
9780712349062
Annotation

Contents: 

  • The Tavistock Boethius: one of the earliest examples of provincial printing / Lucy Lewis 
  • The bookseller and the pedlar: the spread of knowledge of the New World in Early Modern England, 1580-1640 / Catherine Armstrong 
  • Norwich 'publishing' in the seventeenth century / David Stoker 
  • James Tytler's misadventures in the late-eighteenth-century Edinburgh book trade / Stephen Brown 
  • The geographies of promotion: a survey of advertising in two eighteenth-century English newspapers / Ian Jackson 
  • Medical advertising in the Wrexham Press, 1855-1906 / Lisa Peters 
  • Self-interested and evil-minded persons: the book-trade activities of Thomas Wilson, Robert Spence and Joseph Mawman of York and the Mozleys of Gainsborough / David Hounslow 
  • Lounging places and frivolous literature: subscription and circulating libraries in the West Country to 1825 / K.A. Manley 
  • The production and publication of topographical prints in Devon, c.1790-1870 / Ian Maxted 
  • John Murray II and Oliver & Boyd, his Edinburgh agents, 1819-1835 / Peter Isaac 
  • John Murray, Richard Griffin and Oliver & Boyd: some supplementary observations / Iain Beavan 
  • Confessions: the Midlands execution broadside trade / Alice Ford-Smith 
  • Station to station: the LNWR and the emergence of the railway bookstall, 1840-1875 / Stephen Colclough 
  • Imagined local communities: three Victorian newspaper novelists / Graham Law
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