A History of British PublishingCovers the whole period in which books have been printed in Britain, from copying manuscripts to the Net Book Agreement. |
Contents
The Book Trade Before Printing | 1 |
The Press in Chains 14761695 | 5 |
The Book Revolution | 7 |
Books in the Marketplace | 19 |
The Foundation of an Industry | 29 |
A Taste of Freedom | 43 |
The Licensed Press | 50 |
Licence and Liberty 16951800 | 65 |
The Book Trade and the Industrial Revolution | 129 |
The Organisation of the Trade in the Nineteenth Century | 139 |
The Age of the Novel | 150 |
The Diffusion of Knowledge | 160 |
The Publishers and the Authors | 169 |
The Trade in the Twentieth Century | 181 |
The Customs of the Trade | 183 |
Old Ways and New Directions | 193 |
Response to Freedom | 67 |
The Trade and the Law | 84 |
The Expanding Trade | 93 |
Periodicals and Part Books | 106 |
Publishers and Booksellers | 116 |
The First of the Mass Media 18001900 | 127 |
Allen Lanes Idea | 206 |
The Trade in War and Peace | 214 |
51 | 225 |
Bibliography | 263 |
Copyright | |