The Reach of Print: Making, Selling & Using Books (Print networks) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1873040512 ISBN 13: 9781873040515

Publisher: St Paul's Bibliographies, 1998

Synopsis

This second volume in the new series Print Networks shows that the annual Seminar on the British Book Trade is steadily developing the depth and breadth of its interests in the contemporary social, economic, educational and cultural climates in which booksellers and printers and their fellows operated.

About this title

Synopsis

This is a study of the social, economic, educational and cultural climates in which booksellers, printers and their fellows operated in earlier times. Today, few booksellers can support themselves solely by the sale of books, and this was even more the case in the past, when they engaged in a wide range of trades, including selling stationery, printing, and the sale of nostrums. Newspapers were also important sources of income, since their distribution networks were essential to the proprietor's survival, and for much of the population street literature was particularly significant. Two aspects of these ephemera - their contribution to the "oral tradition" and their crude illustrations - are among the topics explored in this book. Its last three contributions deal with the fact that we have so much printed matter to study - a fact that derives partly from predecessors who formed libraries for their own use or for a wider readership.

Edition details

• Publisher: St Paul's Bibliographies
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1873040512
• ISBN 13: 9781873040515
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 230
• Editor: Isaac Peter, McKay Barry