The business of books : booksellers and the English book trade, 1450-1850 / James Raven
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2007. 1st edition. Signed by the author, and inscribed to Ian Wilson. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #473608
ISBN: 0300122616
Physical description: xviii, 493 pages : illustrations, maps. 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. Subjects: Book industries and trade Great Britain History. Publishers and publishing Great Britain History. Printers Great Britain History. Literature publishing Great Britain History. Publishers and publishing Great Britain History. Book industries and trade Great Britain History.
Price: €225.00