Overview

Book-trade history is one of the most active areas of research centred on the medium of print as well as on communication more generally. This is the first volume of a new series to appear under the general title of Routledge Studies in Book Trade History . As the title indicates the contributors to each of the sections, the book consists of two linked sections each containing essays by leading specialists in the field. The first is directly concerned with the lines of access into the various book trades, printing bookselling and binding, and in particular the contributors explore the process by which technical and commercial skills have been transmitted. The second, examines the trade in the context of the audience for print and raises issues about investment and the construction the distribution and consumption of print in the pan-European market. The editors of this volume have already been involved in the publication of a long series books which have picked up the main themes in the history of print. These have included volumes on finance, serial publication, book collecting and music, which have been initiated through the annual conferences on book trade history based in London. The inclusive character of this output in terms of period and place is also reflected here. The contributors working along the frontiers of research each exemplify the methods and objectives of current work and in their essays combine convincing detail with broader cultural perspectives.

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Author:   Michael Harris ,  Robin Myers ,  Giles Mandelbrote (Lambeth Palace Library, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781138501959

ISBN 10:   1138501956
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 January 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part One: A Skilled Workforce: Training and Collaboration in the Book Trades from the Sixteenth Century 1. Apprenticeship and the Stationers' Company (Robin Myers) 2. The Training of bookbinders in the 17th and 18th centuries (M. M. Foot) 3. How did they learn? The Training of British Engravers 1714-1830 (David Alexander) 4. The Most Despicable Drudge in the Universe'? Ambition, Assistance and Experience in the papers of John Nichols and his family, 1765-1830 (Julian Pooley) 5. The early types of the Didots, 1781-89: emulation, competition and collaboration as factors of typographic progress (Sebastien Morlighem) 6. Hand-in-hand: The Original Society of Paper Makers, labour and customs of a craft industry in the nineteenth century (Maureen Green) 7. The Alden Press, 1832-2008 (William Alden) Part Two: Balancing the Books: Financing the Book Trade since the Fifteenth Century 7. The price of books in Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries (Angela Nuovo) 8. The economics of cheap print during the English revolution, 1640-1660 (Jason Peacey) 9. 'The pleasant art of money catching'; the expansion of the trade in cheap books around 1700 (Michael Harris) 10. Jobbing; was it the financial mainstay of the printing house? (James Raven) 11. Business Plan: the case of James Rivington (Christine Ferdinand) 12. Oscar Wilde: Money, morality and the Book Trade (Mark Turner and John Stokes)

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Michael Harris is at Birkbeck College, the University of London and is one of the Editors of the Routledge journal, Media History Robin Myers is a respected book trade historian and has been editor of the Publishing Pathways Series devoted to studies in book trade and publishing history Giles Mandlebrote is Librarian and Archivist at Lambeth Palace Library. Prior to that he worked for nearly fifteen years at the British Library as one of the curators responsible for the national collection of books printed in Britain during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

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