The Business of Books
Subtitle: Booksellers and the English Book Trade 1450-1850
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: August 22, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780300122619
Subjects: Economic history; Printing, packaging & reprographic industry; Publishing industry; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History; Business / Economics / Finance; History: World; England; Commerce; General; History / General; Europe - Great Britain - General; Library & Information Science; Sales & Selling - General; Book industries and trade; Great Britain; Printers; Publishers and publishing
Description: In 1450 very few English men or women were personally familiar with a book; but by 1850, the great majority of people daily encountered books, magazines, or newspapers. This text explores the history of this fundamental transformation.