Development of the English book trade, 1700-1899
By: edited by Robin Myers and Michael Harris.
Contributors: Myers, Robin.; Harris, Michael, 1938-
Series: Publishing pathways
Publisher: Oxford Polytechnic Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Book industries and trade -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.; Publishers and publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Papers ... presented at a conference organised by the University of London Department of Extra-Mural Studies"--p. vi.
Table of contents: title: John Nichols (1745-1826), chronicler of the book trade / Robin Myers; title: The growth of government tolerance of the press to 1790 / Alan Downie; title: Periodicals and the book trade / Michael Harris; title: The institutionalisation of the British book trade to the 1890s / John Sutherland; title: Thomas Hood, a nineteenth-century author and his relations with the book trade to 1835 / Peter Thorogood.