A Nation of Readers

A Nation of Readers
Author: David Allan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN:

Reading was one of Georgian England's defining obsessions. This book argues that the proliferation of library facilities greatly extended the quantity and diversity of texts available. It suggests that the resulting circulation of books on a previously unimaginable scale made possible the creation of a substantial and broadly based reading public.

Sketches of Booksellers of Other Days

Sketches of Booksellers of Other Days
Author: E. Edward Marston
Publisher: McCutchen Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2008-07
Genre:
ISBN: 1408672340

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Writers, Books, and Trade

Writers, Books, and Trade
Author: O M. Brack
Publisher:
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

These 17 essays by a group of international scholars offer new knowledge and insights into the history of the English book trade in the 18th century, a period that saw the rise of the professional writer. No collection can cover the full range of this topic, but there is a variety of subjects providing a historical context for the writing, printing, publishing, and distributing of books: women in the book trade, bankruptcy in bookselling, uses of newspaper advertizements to study the book trade, book reviewing and provincial readership of books and reviews. Among the literary figures considered are Pope, Johnson, Fielding, Smollett and Sterne. Among the contributors are Patricia Hernlyund, G. Thomas Tanselle, K.I.D Maslen, Nicolas Barker, J.D. Fleeman, Thomas R. Adams and the editor.