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.

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Title

The Reach of Print: Making, Selling and Using Books

Publisher

St Paul's Bibliographies, Winchester

Publication Date

1998

Language

English

ISBN 10

1873040512

ISBN 13

9781873040515

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

No Dust Jacket

Book Type

Used

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The essays are the proceedings of the the fifteenth seminar on the British Book Trade, held in Canterbury in July 1997. They reflect the depth and breath of the contemporary social, economic, educational and cultural climates in which booksellers and printers operated.

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.

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