Mighty Engine Printing Press by Peter Isaac (5 results)

Hardback printed covers. 8vo. Hardback printed covers. 218 pages. This fourth volume in the Print Networks series salutes the impact of the printing press. Taken from the proceedings of the Seventeenth Seminar on the British Book Trade held in Aberystwyth in July 1999, this collection of scholarly essays covers the regulation of printed matter and its distribution, the preservation of Welsh language and culture in print, and various aspects of printing and the book trade in provincial England. Eighteen essays written from such authorities as: John Turner, Barry McKay, John Hinks, John R. Turner, David J. Shaw, Sarah Gray, David Stoker, Stacey Gee, Iain Beavan, Audrey Cooper, Diana Dixon, Margaret Cooper, Brenda Scragg, Philip Henry Jones, Richard Suggett, Chris Baggs and Rheinallt Llwyd. Illustrated. Co-Published with St. Pauls Bibliographies.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. xi, 205 p. fourth volume. (Print Networks.) Print Networks, the fourth volume.

First Edition. Fine copy in the original color printed boards. Particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series; Print networks ; 4. Physical description; xi, 205 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Worthy of the poets and worthy of a gentlemen / Rheinallt Llwyd -- Potter family of Haverfordwest,(1780-1875) / Chris Baggs -- Pedlars & mercers as distributors of print in early-modern Wales / Richard Suggett -- Business is awful bad in these parts / Philip Henry Jones -- George Nicholson and his Cambrian traveller's guide / Audrey Cooper -- William Ford and Edinburgh cultural society at the beginning of the nineteenth century / Brenda Scragg -- Advertising judiciously / Iain Beavan -- Coming of print to York, (c. 1490-1550) / Stacey Gee -- Sturdy rogues and vagabonds / Maureen Bell -- Printing at the red-wall / David Stoker -- Canterbury's external links / David J. Shaw -- William Flackton, (1709-1798), Canterbury bookseller and musician / Sarah Gray -- Books returned, accounts unsettled and gifts of country food / Margaret Cooper -- Newspaper in Huntingdonshire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Diana Dixon -- Chapbooks & primers, piety, poetry & classics / Jim English -- John Ware, printer and bookseller of Whitehaven / Barry McKay -- Some radical printers and booksellers of Leicester (c. 1790-1850) / John Hinks -- Book publishing from the English provinces in the late nineteenth century / John R Turner. SubjectPotter family of Haverfordwest. Gorchestion Beirdd Cymru. Printing Great Britain History. Publishers and publishing Great Britain History. Printing. Publishers and publishing. Printing history. Publishing history. Printing Wales History. Printing Wales History 19th century. Book industries and trade Great Britain History. Printing Great Britain History ; Congresses. Publishers and publishing Great Britain History ; Congresses. Printing Great Britain History. Publishers and publishing Great Britain History. Printing history. Publishing history. Printing Great Britain History ; Congresses. Publishers and publishing Great Britain History ; Congresses. Great Britain. Bookselling and publishing British Isles Congresses. Printing History British Isles Congresses. Genres; Bibliography. Conference proceedings. History. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Tapa dura. Condition: New. ISAAC, P. / B. MCKAY, EDS.: THE MIGHTY ENGINE. THE PRINTING PRESS AND ITS IMPACT [HARDBACK]. NEW CASTLE, DE, 2000, xi 205 p. , 560 gr. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo. (VA-1-4) 560 gr. Libro.

orig.boards. Condition: Minor rubbing. VG. Textual facsimile illus. (illustrator). 22x14cm, xi,205 pp., Series: Print Networks, 4.