Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland. Volume 3. Ambition and industry, 1800-1880
Details:
- Author(s) Bell, Bill (ed)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2007
- Pages 542pp; illus
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Place Published Edinburgh
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Wide ranging content covering publishing, printing and distribution as well as 'consumption' issues, etc, etc. Structured in four parts containing essays on wide ranging aspects of the above. The parts are: 1] 'Production' - 'Organisation of the trade' [inc papermaking, typefounding, printing, illustration, binding]; 2] 'Publishing, distribution and reading' - 'Publishing' / 'Distribution and reading' [inc bookselling, railways, libraries]; 3] 'Markets and genres' - 'Literature in the market place' / 'Diversity of print' / 'Periodicals and newspapers'; 4] 'Beyond Scotland' - 'Greater Britain and Ireland' / 'Bookseller to the world'. Touches on Ballanyne & Co; Bell & Bradfute; A & C Black; Blackie & Sons; William Blackwood & Sons; 'Blackwoods' Edinburgh Magazine'; William Collins & Sons; Constable & Co; 'Edinburgh Review'; 'Encyclopaedia Britannica'; Thomas Nelson & Sons