Publishers and authors
By: by James Spedding.
Contributors: J. E. Taylor and Co.,
Publisher: Printed for the Author. Published by John Russell Smith
Published: 1867
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 91
Subjects: Authors and publishers.; Book industries and trade -- Great Britain -- 19th century.; Publishers and publishing -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
Notes: "The two papers which I have here printed were meant to appear in some magazine or review of good repute, and find their own way to the knowledge of those whom they concern: and I should not have thought of sending them forth by themselves, but that the reason given for refusing them was such as seems to threaten a complete suppression of the questions to which they refer, unless some unusual way be taken to make them known.  The reason given -- in both cases, at a considerable interval of time, and by editors unconnected with each other -- for refusing to admit them into a popular periodical, was not that the subject was (in the editor's judgement) likely to prove uninteresting to his readers, or that the treatment of it was unfair, ineffective, or otherwise discreditable; but that they would offend the Powers upon whom the sale of books depends, and might materially damage the value (as property) of the publication which admitted them."--Preface.

MASS copy: Bound in limp dark green morocco-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind; a.e. sprinkled red.  Upper cover blocked in gold with title.  With ownership inscription dated 1909: "Wm. H. Peel".