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THE MOVING MARKET: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN THE BOOK TRADE.
Isaac, Peter and Barry McKay (editors).
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First Edition. This title is the fifth in our Print Networks series, an important forum for biblio-scholarship and book history. This work offers fifteen authoritative essays from some of the leading scholars in the field. Their writings discuss a wide range of book trade-related issues and their historical significance.
A list of essays in the book include:
- Books and Culture in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Newcastle by Jeffrey Smith
- The First World War and Welsh Language Publishing by Philip Henry Jones
- . . . Scottish Booksellers Societies in the Nineteenth Century by Iain Beavan
- From Currys to Collins Street, or How a Dubliner Became the Melbourne Mudie by Wallace Kirsop
- Book Availability in Ipswich over the Years by Janet Phipps
- Reading in Seventeenth-Century Derbyshire: the Wheatcrofts and their Books by Maureen Bell
- Splendide mendax: Publishing Landscape Illustrations of the Bible by Peter Isaac
- John Atkinsons Lottery Book of 1809: John Lockes Theory of Education Comes to Workington by Barry McKay
- Beginning of the Book Trade in Leicester by John Hinks
- Aristotle to a Very Tall Man: Selling Secondhand Books in Manchester in the 1830s by Michael Powell & Terry Wyke
- From Scotland to the Strand: the Genesis of Andrew Millars Bookselling Career by Richard B. Sher with Hugh Amory. Covers show some soiling and bumping of corners.
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> BOGVENNEN, AARBOG FOR BOGKUNST OG BOGHISTORIE.
> Parks, Stephen (editor), THE ENGLISH BOOK TRADE 1660-1853.
> Marston, E., SKETCHES OF BOOKSELLERS OF OTHER DAYS
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FOR ROBERT PENN WARREN: 24.IV.80.
Limited to 75 numbered sets, of which 55 are for sale. This copy bears the following presentation from the publisher "Many, many thanks, Richard, for your very special contribution - Stuart. 24. April. 80." The two contributing Richard's were Richard Eberhart and Richard Wilbur. Loosely inserted in the portfolio are: four page folder entitled, "RPW by Ann Carter Pollard," which contains a woodcut portrait of Warren signed and numbered by Pollard; ten poetry broadsides by A.R. Ammons, Fred Chappell, James Dickey, Richard Eberhart, George P. Garrett, John Hollander, Williams Meredith, Reynolds Price, Rosanna Warren, and Richard Wilbur (each broadside is numbered and signed by the poet); colophon broadside. Fading along spine.
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