A genius for letters : booksellers and bookselling from the 16th to the 20th century / edited by Robin Myers and Michael Harris.

Title & Author:

A genius for letters : booksellers and bookselling from the 16th to the 20th century / edited by Robin Myers and Michael Harris.

Publication:

Winchester [England] : St. Paul's Bibliographies ; New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Press, 1995.

Description:

xiv, 188 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Series:

Publishing pathways

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Booksellers and bookbinders / Anthony Hobson -- Dealing across frontiers : Italian bookselling in the 18th century / Luigi Balsamo -- Honest Sam. Briscoe / Germaine Greer -- From the warehouse to the counting-house : booksellers and bookshops in late 17th-century London / Giles Mandelbrote / Antiquarian bookselling in Britain in 1725 : the nature of the evidence / Christopher Edwards -- Book advertisements in mid-18th-century newspapers : the example of Robert Dodsley / James Tierney -- 'An illiterate fellow of a bookseller' : John Murray and his authors, 1768-1793 / William Zachs -- Bookselling by the backdoor : circulating libraries, booksellers and book clubs 1870-1966 / Simon Eliot -- Secret history of Smith & Elder : the publishers circular as a source for publishing history / Bill Bell.

Summary:

Presents nine essays on the history of the book trade, focusing on booksellers in various eras in Britain and Italy. Looks at booksellers' place at the center of the manufacture and distribution of books, and their role in shaping readers' tastes and laying the foundation of commercial publishing.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

1873040245 (UK)
9781873040249 (UK)
1884718167 (USA)
9781884718168 (USA)

Subject:

Booksellers and bookselling Great Britain History.
Bookselling history
Booksellers and bookselling.
Buchhandel
Buchhändler
Boekhandel.
Boekhandelaren.
Libraires Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Librairie Grande-Bretagne Histoire Congrès.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Books Trades History

Form/genre:

Printed books England Winchester 20th century Specimens
Printed books United States Delaware New Castle 20th century Specimens
History.

Added entries:

Myers, Robin (Book trade historian)
Harris, Michael H.
Publishing pathways.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 108700
Call No.: ID Z325.G4; ID:96-B135
Status: Available

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