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Myers, Robin and Michael Harris (editors) CENSORSHIP AND THE CONTROL OF PRINT IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE 1600-1910.
Winchester St Paul's Bibliographies 1992 8vo. hardback xii, 154 pages
First edition. Part of the Publishing Pathways Series. The medium of print has always been identified as a crucial element in the exercise of power. Since the invention of printing a combination of interests - political, religious and cultural - have borne down on the Press in an attempt to shape and contain its output. Each stage of the production and distribution of printed material can be seen as a battlefield of competing ideologies, whether organized through such institutions as the Stationers' Company, Parliament, and the lending library, or represented by broad divisions within society at large.
In this collection of essays leading scholars investigate the interaction between authors, publishers, booksellers, readers and regulatory bodies in England and France across three centuries, and show the key role that the book trade - resisting or adapting to external pressure - has played in defining what is permissible to publish.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 37463

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Myers, Robin and Michael Harris MILLENNIUM OF THE BOOK: PRODUCTION, DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATION IN MANUSCRIPT AND PRINT 900-1900.
Winchester & New Castle, Delaware St Paul's Bibliographies and Oak Knoll Books (1994) 8vo. printed paper over boards. 192 pages.
No. 8 in the Publishing Pathways Series. In this collection of essays, leading scholars investigate the ways in which the book as a physical artifact developed over ten centuries. In many respects, it is a story of impressive continuity. With the manuscript as with the printed book, the status of the text and the use to which it was to be put determined the design treatment and the format, scale and quality of the product. Scribes in Anglo-Saxon times can be seen to have been making decisions made by their counterparts in commercial publishing houses a thousand years later.
However, it is shown that after an initial period of overlap between manuscript and print there was a radical shift in form and design, as producers competed in a widening market and as production was transformed by mechanization. Illustration was no longer just for luxury books but became an essential element in publications aimed at the middling levels of society, and new ideas about the presentation of pictures integrated with text resulted. There were also commercial challenges to the workers in traditional crafts, particularly bookbinding, who were forced to adapt their practices to reduce cost and increase flexibility, whilst papermakers had to introduce fundamentally different products in order to meet huge increases in demand. By 1900, the interaction of market and industrial production methods had led inevitably to substantial diversification in the form and, arguably, an overall reduction in the quality of the book as a product. Well illustrated.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 40611

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Myers, Robin. JOURNEYS THROUGH THE MARKET: TRAVEL, TRAVELLERS AND THE BOOK TRADE.
New Castle Oak Knoll Press 1999 8vo. pictorial paper-covered boards. ix, 154 pages.
First edition. Part of the Publishing Pathways Series. This work is a series of scholarly essays on the history of travel, travelers and their relation to the book trade. The essays are written by the following prominent British scholars: Bill Bell, University of Edinburgh; Jeremy Black, University of Exeter; Michael Harris, University of London; Charles Newton, Victoria and Albert Museum; Anthony Payne, Bernard Quaritch Ltd.; Andrew Tatham, Royal Geographical Society; and Giles Barber, University of Oxford.
Price: $ 39.95 other currencies Order nr. 57369

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Myers, Robin, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote (editors) BOOKS FOR SALE: THE ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION OF PRINT SINCE THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2009 6 x 9 inches hardcover, dust jacket 208 pages
Advertising and promotion have always underpinned the business of bookselling but are often difficult for the historian to reconstruct. Once books were being produced in multiple copies, the book trade invested time, money, and imagination in the attempt to stimulate demand, manipulate customer choice, and expand the market. The mixed uses of marketing, both as product information and as an expression of trade identity and commercial rivalries, offer a glimpse at trade practices and the circumstances of individual careers.

This volume of eight original essays, with contributions by specialists in the promotion and marketing of print, as well as by leading historians of the book, explores themes that include the advertising and marketing techniques of booksellers and publishers across early modern Europe, the increasing use of newspaper and periodical advertisements in England and Ireland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the dramatic impact of online marketing on the book trade. Other promotional tools discussed here range from the illustrated trade cards of eighteenth-century Paris to the rise of the book jacket and the cult of literary prizes in the twentieth century.Co-published with The British Library.

Sales rights: Worldwide except in the UK; available in the UK from the British Library.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 100485

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Myers, Robin, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote (editors) BOOKS ON THE MOVE: TRACKING COPIES THROUGH COLLECTIONS AND THE BOOK TRADE
New Castle, Delaware and London, UK Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2007 6 x 9 inches cloth, dust jacket 180 pages
First edition. Movements of books, both as individual volumes and as collections, have sometimes covered long distances across many centuries. Subject to the vagaries of war, shipwreck and personal ruin, as well as the intervention of the book trade and of collectors, the travels of books often have an intricately detailed and compelling story to tell. One of the most active areas of current research in book history is concerned with interpreting the clues from individual copies and piecing together the documentary evidence to provide this narrative. In this volume of the Publishing Pathways series, leading specialists in book history consider examples from the sixteenth to the twentieth century to chart some of the paths followed by books through the European network of print. This may focus on the large collections accumulated by Renaissance scholars, but may equally involve tracking multiple copies of the same work through the marks of ownership left by unknown readers. Books on the Move represents an important contribution to an understanding of the shifting interactions over time between libraries, collectors and the book trade.
Co-published with the British Library. Sales rights: Worldwide except in the UK; available in the UK from the British Library.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 95718

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Myers, Robin, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote (editors) FAIRS, MARKETS AND THE ITINERANT BOOK TRADE
New Castle, Delaware and London, UK Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2007 6 x 8.5 inches hardcover 240 pages
From the Frankfurt book fairs in the sixteenth century to the Farringdon Road barrows in the twentieth, fairs and markets have played a crucial role in the circulation of books. Traveling peddlers and itinerant printers have also acted as intermediaries in distributing books beyond the reach of conventional shops and in spreading trade practices. In this volume of the Publishing Pathways Series, leading book historians investigate the presence of the book trade in the streets and public spaces of Britain and continental Europe. The essays range across geographical as well as chronological frontiers to follow the movement of books, ideas and people. Contributors include John Flood, Clive Griffin, Michael Harris, Ian Maclean, John Morris, Jerome Salman and David Stoker. Co-published with The British Library. Sales rights: Worldwide except in the UK; available in the UK from The British Library.
Price: $ 47.50 other currencies Order nr. 92772

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Myers, Robin, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote (editors) LIVES IN PRINT: BIOGRAPHY AND THE BOOK TRADE FROM THE MIDDLE AGE TO THE 21st CENTURY.
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 2003 8vo. hardcover, dust jacket 218 pages.
First edition. This is the 22nd title in our Publishing Pathways series. Ten leading scholars focus on prominent printer/publishers and their contribution to printing history. Subjects covered include the works of John Nichols, John Foxe, Andrew Brice, John Wolfe, Shakespeare's Lives in Print, Interpreting Manuscript Evidence, The Dictionary of National Bibliography, and John Day's Book of Martyrs, etc. Co-published with the British Library.
Price: $ 39.95 other currencies Order nr. 71829

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Myers, Robin, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote (Editors) OWNERS, ANNOTATORS AND THE SIGNS OF READING
with The Publishing Pathways Series Cumulative Index New Castle, Delaware, and London, UK Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2005 8vo. cloth, dust jacket 248 pages with 40 b/w illustrations
Part of the Publishing Pathways Series. Reading, and the manifold signs of reading, have become one of the most dynamic areas of research in book history. The reader as consumer and owner, as well as participant in the construction of new meanings, is the subject of these original essays. Specialists in literature, art history and book history investigate the annotations, marginal marks, extra-illustration and other forms of evidence left by readers. Through an examination of the book as a physical object, the contributors provide a range of intriguing insights into the ways in which this internalized and ephemeral activity can be understood in the context of book-trade history. Available in the UK from The British Library.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 89478

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Myers, Robin, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote (editors) PUBLISHING THE FINE AND APPLIED ARTS 1500-2000
New Castle, Delaware and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2012 6 x 9 inches hardcover, dust jacket 224 pages
Next in the Publishing Pathways series, Publishing the Fine and Applied Arts examines aspects of the relationship between the business of print and the practice of art and design across five centuries. Leading specialists explore the role played by the book trade in the diffusion of artistic and architectural theory, fashion, and practice. Other essays trace the impact of aesthetic trends and advances in the techniques of binding, color printing, and illustration on the appearance of books themselves. Among the topics discussed are the printed sources for decorative motifs in sixteenth-century churches, the publication history of the works of Andrea Palladio, and the evolution of drawing manuals in seventeenth-century England. Other subjects include the library formed by the architect Sir John Soane, developments in nineteenth-century art publishing, and the role of printed catalogues in documenting the acquisitions made by English collectors of paintings, sculpture, and antiquities. Essays are from Mirjam Foot, Malcolm Jones, Charles Hind, Meghan Doherty, Susan Palmer, Abraham Thomas, Rowan Watson, and Charles Sebag-Montefiore. The book is illustrated in color and black-and-white.

Available in the UK from The British Library.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 104084

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Myers, Robin, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote, eds. MUSIC AND THE BOOK TRADE FROM THE SIXTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
New Castle, Delaware and London, England Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2008 6 x 9 inches hardcover with dust jacket 240 pages
The history of music printing and publishing has generally formed a self-contained area of research within the study of book history. Bibliographers and book historians have tended to overlook the trade in printed music, partly because the means of production (reproducing notation rather than letter forms) and of distribution (often through the specialist sellers of musical instruments and equipment) were themselves distinct. On the other hand, musicologists have until recently paid less attention to the commercial aspects of printed music, concentrating more on the technicalities of composition and performance.

The original contributions contained in this newest addition to the Publishing Pathways series map some of the common ground between music and other forms of print, exploring the ways in which the organization of production and the process of publication of printed music have developed over time. From the production and sale of missals in Renaissance Spain to the complexities of Gustav Mahlers copyrights in late nineteenth-century Vienna, these essays raise issues and demonstrate methods of approach that will be of wider relevance to many areas of book history. How composers and publishers worked out their respective financial interests is just one of the recurring themes which will strike a chord with those who study the business of print. Co-published with The British Library. Available in the UK from The British Library.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 96678

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Myers, Robin SPREADING THE WORD, THE DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS OF PRINT 1550-1850.
Winchester St Paul's Bibliographies and Oak Knoll Press 1998 8vo. printed paper over boards. (xiii), 241 pages.
Reprint of the 1990 first edition. Part of the Publishing Pathways Series. How did printed material in Britain get from producer to reader? What were the mechanics of supply by which individuals from varied social backgrounds came into contact with print culture? These are hard questions lying at the heart of what is sometimes called the new bibliography. Distribution is a complex line of book trade history because it leads out of the self-contained and familiar area of the printing office and bookshop into the often baffling regions of redistribution and consumption, where the evidence is often fragmentary.
London, with its ever-increasing output in this period of books, pamphlets, newspapers, ballads and ephemera, was always the dominant influence on the market. In this volume, however, the contributors are almost all concerned with aspects of the local trade in different parts of the British Isles and, in one essay, the trade between London and America via Scotland. They provide a series of detailed investigations into the distribution networks which supplemented those based in the capital, and in doing so they give a fresh view of the developing relationship between print and society over three centuries.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 32777

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