Books for the Million. Popular book publishing in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain
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- Author(s) Spiers, John
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2018
- Pages 126pp
- Publisher Edward Everett Root
- Place Published Brighton
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Scholarly account. Deals especially with the contrasting businesses of John Ruskin, 1819-1900, Richard Edward King, 1854-1916, and George Newnes, 1851-1910, seeking to 'understand the book trade, its production and structure, its ever-changing distribution methods, the widest and cheapest popular access to books, and shifting reading practices'