Title & Author:

Spreading the word : the distribution networks of print 1550-1850 / edited by Robin Myers and Michael Harris.

Publication:

Winchester : St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1990.

Description:

xii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Series:

Publishing pathways

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Wales and the London book trade before 1820 / Eiluned Rees -- Scottish books for America in the mid-18th century / Warren McDougall -- Printers and booksellers in Dublin 1800-1850 / Charles Benson -- Publisher, pedlar, pot-poet : the changing character of the broadside trade, 1550-1640 / Tessa Watt -- A few shillings for small books : the experience of a flying stationer in the 18th century / Michael Harris -- Single sheets from a country town : the example of Exeter / Ian Maxted -- Local distribution networks in 18th century England / C.Y. Ferdinand -- Egerton Smith and the early 19th century book trade in Liverpool / Michael Perkin -- The country trade in books / John Feather.

Summary:

"How did printed material in Britain get from producer to reader? What were the mechanics of supply by which individuals from very varied social backgrounds came into contact with the print culture? These are hard questions lying at the heart of what is sometimes called the new bibliography. Distribution is a complex lines of book trade history because it leads out of the self-contained and familiar area of the printing office and bookshop, into the often baffling regions of redistribution and consumption, where the evidence is often fragmentary and difficult to work with. London, with its ever-increasing output in this period of books, pamphlets, newspapers, ballads and ephemera, was always the dominant influence on the market. In this volume, however, the contributors are almost all concerned with aspects of the local trade in different parts of the British Isles and, in one essay, the trade between London and America via Scotland. They provide a series of detailed investigations into the distribution networks which supplemented and meshed in with those based on the capital, and in doing so they give a fresh view of the developing relationship between print and society over three centuries."-- From the rear cover.

ISBN:

0906795877
9780906795873
188471854X
9781884718540

Subject:

Publishers and publishing Great Britain History.
Publishing history
Éditeurs Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Édition Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Publishers and publishing.
Boekenproductie.
Boekhandel.
Great Britain.
Publishing History

Form/genre:

Conference publications.
History.

Added entries:

Myers, Robin.
Harris, Michael, 1938-
Publishing pathways.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 62373
Call No.: ID Z325.S6; ID:91-B1114
Status: Available