The Mighty Engine: the printing press and its impact

A stellar exemplar of the results of a fine Seminar on the British Book Trade in the Seventeenth Century, held in July of 1999, in Aberystwyth, Wales, edited by Peter C. Isaac and Barry McKay. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the glossy duotone (red and white) illustrated (with a likeness of a printing press) to front cover, bright interior, unmarked. xi, 205 pp. and with plentiful illustrations, a map, notes, bibliography and an index. The Table of Contents shows: "Worthy of the poets and worthy of a gentlemen," by Rheinallt Llwyd; "Potter family of Haverfordwest (1780-1875)," by 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," by Audrey Cooper; "William Ford and Edinburgh cultural society at the beginning of the nineteenth century," by Brenda Scragg; "Advertising judiciously," by Iain Beavan; "Coming of print to York (c. 1490-1550)," by Stacey Gee; "Sturdy rogues and vagabonds," Maureen Bell; "Printing at the red-wall," by David Stoker; "Canterbury's external links," by David J. Shaw; "William Flackton (1709-1798), Canterbury bookseller and musician," by Sarah Gray; "Books returned, accounts unsettled and gifts of country food," by Margaret Cooper; "Newspaper in Huntingdonshire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries," by Diana Dixon; "Chapbooks & primers, piety, poetry & classics," by Jim English; "John Ware, printer and bookseller of Whitehaven," by Barry McKay; "Some radical printers and booksellers of Leicester (c. 1790-1850)," by John Hinks; Book publishing from the English provinces in the late nineteenth century," by John R Turner. All in, a superb copy, straight from Oak Knoll Press.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…