The Scottish book trade, 1500-1720
Subtitle: print commerce and print control in early modern Scotland : an historiographical survey of the early modern book in Scotland
By: by Alastair J. Mann.
Publisher: Tuckwell Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Book industries and trade -- Scotland -- History -- 16th century.; Book industries and trade -- Scotland -- History -- 17th century.; Book industries and trade -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century.; Printing -- Scotland -- History -- 16th century.; Printing -- Scotland -- History -- 17th century.; Printing -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century.
Description: "This book is a detailed examination of the Scottish book trade from c.1500 to c.1720, looking at booksellers, bookbinders, stationers and printers and their relationship to the forces of authority. The scale of the trade in this period was surprisingly large, consisting of over 150 printers and over 400 booksellers, but its rate of growth was not constant as it was affected by economic and political circumstances." "It is the public, not the private world of book dissemination that is examined. Emphasis is placed more on supply than on demand. It is shown that the unique qualities of the printed book, with its blend of commerce and technology on the one hand, and intellect and ideology on the other, ensured that authority - burghs, church, government (crown and executive) and law courts - reacted with a complex response of liberty and prohibition. So it was for all nations experiencing the arrival of printing, but Scotland had its own particular range of dynamics, a distinct Scottish tradition."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-292) and index.