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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.
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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.
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THE REACH OF PRINT. Making, selling and using books.
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Winchester: St Paul's Bibliographies; New Castle DE.: Oak Knoll Press, 1998
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ISBN 13: 9781873040515
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8vo, (218mm), x,228p. 26 illustrations and maps. A very good copy in original laminated hardback boards. Print Networks series of papers from the annual Seminar on British Book Trade History, containing: R. J. Goulden Print Culture in the Kentish Weald, David Shaw & Sarah Gray James Abree: Canterbury's First 'Modern' Printer, Philip Henry Jones The Welsh Wesleyan Bookroom, Margaret Cooper A Snuff-box for the king of Prussia: the remarkable Career of Benjamin Maund, Barry McKay Cumbrian Chapbook Cuts: Some Sources and Other Versions, John Morris, A Bothy Ballad and its Chapbook Source, Fiona Black Book Distribution to the Scottish and Canadian Provinces, Bill Bell 'Pioneers of Literature': Commercial Travellers in the Early 19th Century, Michael Powell & Terry Wyke Penny Capitalism in the Manchester Book Trade: the Case of James Wetherley, Peter Isaac Charles Elliot and Spilsbury's Antiscorbutic Drops, Sheila Hingley Elham Parish Library, Michael Perkin Parochial Libraries: Founders and Readers, and Iain Beavan 'The best Library that ever the North Pairtes of Scotland Saw': Thomas Reid and his Books. Seller Inventory # 25314
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Contributor copy hardcover with printed board, no dust jacket, in very good condition. Page block head is lightly foxed. Pages and text are otherwise clear and unmarked throughout. LW. Used. Seller Inventory # 537401