The Reach of Print: Making, Selling, and Using Books

Contents: Print Culture in the Kentish Weald / R.J. Goulden James Abree (1691?-1768): Canterbury's First 'Modern' Printer / David Shaw and Sarah Gray The Welsh Wesleyan Bookroom, 1824-8: A New Set of Printing Accounts / Philip Henry Jones A Snuff-Box from the King of Prussia: The Remarkable Career of Benjamin Maund, Bookseller, Druggist & Botanist 1790-1864 / Margaret Cooper Cumbrian Chapbook Cuts: Some Sources and Other Versions / Barry McKay A Bothy Ballad & its Chapbook Source / John Morris Book Distribution to the Scottish and Canadian Provinces, 1750-1820: Examples of Methods and Availability / Fiona A. Black 'Pioneers of Literature': The Commercial Traveller in the Early 19th Century / Bill Bell Penny Capitalism in the Manchester Book Trade: The Case of James Weatherley / Michael Powell and Terry Wyke Charles Elliot and Spilsbury's Antiscorbutic Drops / Peter Isaac Elham Parish Library / Sheila Hingley Parochial Libraries: Founders and Readers / Michael Perkin 'The Best Library that ever the North Pairtes of Scotland Saw': Thomas Reid (Latin Secretary to James VI) and his Books / Iain Beavan