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The business of books : booksellers and the English book trade, 1450-1850
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The business of books : booksellers and the English book trade, 1450-1850 / James Raven.
ISBN
0300122616
9780300122619
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.
Physical Description
xviii, 493 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 07, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [435]-455) and index.
Contents
Introduction: the enterprise of booksellers
The arrival of print: domestic and foreign
Markets and martyrs: early modern commerce
The late Stuart trade: new horizons
Investing in books: the supremacy of the booksellers
High and low: locating the trades
Boosting demand: stationers, printers, and sellers
Challenges and survivals: the late eighteenth century
Promoting the wares
Risking failure
Steam and stamps: nineteenth-century transformation.
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