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.

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Title: THE REACH OF PRINT. Making, selling and using books.
Publisher: Winchester: St Paul s Bibliographies; New Castle DE.: Oak Knoll Press
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN 10: 1873040512
ISBN 13: 9781873040515
Binding: Hardcover

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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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