Serials and their readers, 1620-1914
By: edited by Robin Myers and Michael Harris.
Contributors: Myers, Robin.; Harris, Michael, 1938-; Conference on Book Trade History (14th : 1992 : University of London)
Series: Publishing pathways
Publisher: St Paul's Bibliographies; Oak Knoll Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Winchester, Hampshire; New Castle, Del
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Periodicals -- Publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.; English periodicals -- History -- Congresses.; Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers presented at the 14th annual Conference on Book Trade History which was held Nov. 1992 at the Birkbeck College Centre for Extra-Mural Studies, University of London.
Table of contents: title: Projects in progress: A bibliography of English fiction, 1770-1830, Serials in the Cambridge bibliography of English literature, Computer register of musical data in London newspapers, 1660-1800; title: The distribution and readership of London corantos in the 1620s / Michael Frearson; title: American readership of early British serials / Carolyn Nelson; title: Periodicals and politics in the reign of Queen Anne / J.A. Downie; title: Politicisation and the press in Hanoverian England / Jeremy Black; title: The "trepidation of the spheres" : the serial and the book in the 19th century / Laurel Brake; title: Serial advertisement in 18th-century Britain and Ireland / James Raven; title: Fiction in the marketplace : towards a study of the Victorian serial / Bill Bell; title: Constructing the readership in 19th-century Wales / Aled Jones.