Periodicals and publishers
Subtitle: the newspaper and journal trade, 1750-1914
By: edited by John Hinks, Catherine Armstrong & Matthew Day.
Contributors: Hinks, John, 1946-; Armstrong, Catherine.; Day, Matthew, 1968-
Series: Print networks
Publisher: Oak Knoll Press; British Library
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Castle, DE; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781584562665; 9780712350747
Subjects: Periodicals -- Publishing -- Great Britain -- History; Newspaper publishing -- Great Britain -- History
Description: "Eleven essays on book history, specifically provincial periodicals and newspapers in England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1740 through 1914. Part of the Print Networks series. Includes case studies of individual publishers. Indexed" - Provided by publisher
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Forever provincial? : a north British lament / Iain Beavan; title: The market for murder and Edinburgh's eighteenth-century book trade / Stephen Brown; title: John Ferrar 1742-1804 : printer, author, and public man / Jennifer Moore; title: William Flyn (1740-1811) and the readers of Munster in the second half of the eighteenth century / Maíre Kennedy; title: Humble pie : John Fletcher, business, politics and the Chester chronicle / Victoria Gardner; title: Sarah Hodgson and the business of print, 1800-1822 / Ria Snowdon; title: Latter struggles in the life of a provincial bookseller and printer : George Miller of Dunbar, Scotland / Graham Hogg; title: Manchester men and Manchester magazines : publishing periodicals in the provinces in the nineteenth century / Michael Powell & Terry Wyke; title: National enterprise and domestic periodicals in nineteenth-century Ireland / Elizabeth Tilley; title: Selling the news : distributing Wrexham's newspapers, 1850-1900 / Lisa Peters & Kath Skinner; title: The retail newsagents of Lancashire are on strike : the dispute between the Lancashire retail newsagents and the northern wholesalers, February-September 1914 / Stephen Colclough.