Printing and the book in Manchester
Subtitle: 1700-1850.
Series: Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society
Publisher: Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society
Published: 2001
Place of publication: [Manchester]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Book industries and trade -- England -- Manchester -- History -- 18th century.; Book industries and trade -- England -- Manchester -- History -- 19th century.; Printing industry -- England -- Manchester -- History -- 18th century.; Printing industry -- England -- Manchester -- History -- 19th century.; Books and reading -- England -- Manchester -- History -- 18th century.; Books and reading -- England -- Manchester -- History -- 19th century.
Notes: "The Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society actively promotes the study of the history of the two counties and their regional setting ... Since its foundation the society has published ninety-six volumes of Transactions." -- The Society, p. [5].

"The Transactions is a refereed journal ... This volume of Transactions has been edited by the Chairman and Honorary Secretary with the assistance of an editorial sub-committee." -- Editorial note.

"Printing and the Book in Manchester contains the papers delivered at an important conference held in Manchester in March 2001.  Some of the papers are wide-ranging surveys of the history and literature of the trade whilst others are more specific essays on such printers, booksellers and collectors as James Harrop, Abel Heywood and James Crossley."--Dust jacket.
Table of contents: value: The English Provincial Book Trade to 1800 / Peter Isaac; value: Publishing and Reading Books etc. in Nineteenth-Century Manchester / Terry Wyke; value: 'That great fountain of Truth, Good Manners and what not' : competing for the hearts and minds of newspaper readers in Manchester, 1730-60 / Craig Horner; value: Joseph and James Harrop of Manchester / Julie Ramwell; value: The Manchester common reader - Abel Heywood's 'Evidence' and the early Victorian Reading Public / B. E. Maidment; value: Towards a History of Book-ownership in Manchester / Michael Powell; value: 'An Eminent Bibliophile and Man of Letters' : James Crossley of Manchester / Steve Collins; value: Secondhand bookselling in Manchester: a personal backward glance / Tony Gibb; value: The G. R. Axon Collection of Broadsides / Eddie Cass; value: Manchester Book Trade : A preliminary bibliography / Rod Evans; value: Notes on Contributors; value: Index.