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Order Nr. 55468 HUMAN FACE OF THE BOOK TRADE: PRINT CULTURE AND ITS CREATORS. Peter Isaac, Barry...

HUMAN FACE OF THE BOOK TRADE: PRINT CULTURE AND ITS CREATORS.

New Castle, Delaware and Folkestone, England: Oak Knoll Press and St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1999. small 8vo. Hardback printed covers. x, 228 pages. First edition. These thirteen scholarly essays on the history of the book trade are the third volume in the PRINT NETWORKS series of publications. The original papers were presented at the annual "Seminars on the British Book Trade." The essays covered include Paul Morgan's "Henry Cotton and W. H. Allnutt: Two Pioneer Book-Trade..... READ MORE

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                         Contents

List of Contributors    vii
Editorial    ix

PAUL MORGAN          Henry Cotton and W H Allnutt: two
                     Pioneer Book-Trade Historians    1

DAVID STOKER         The Country Book Trades 1784-85    13

STEPHEN W BROWN      William Smellie and the Printer's Role in
                     the Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh Book Trade    29

RICHARD B SHER       William Buchan's Domestic Medicine:
                     Laying Book History Open    45

JONATHAN SANDERSON   Medical Secrets and the Book Trade:
                     Ownership of the Copy to the College of
                     Physicians' Pharmacopoeia (1618-50)    65

WARREN McDOUGALL     Charles Elliot and the London Booksellers
                     in the Early Years    81

PETER ISAAC          Charles Elliot and the English Provincial
                     Book Trade    97

PHILIP HENRY JONES   Scotland and the Welsh-Language Book
                     Trade during the Second Half of the
                     Nineteenth Century    117

IAIN BEAVAN          'Spreading the Hell-hounds of Jealousy and
                     Discord': the Aberdeen Shaver and its Times    137

BRENDAJ SCRAGG       William Ford, Manchester Bookseller    155

MICHAEL POWELL &     At the Fall of the Hammer: Auctioning
TERRY WYKE           Books in Manchester 1700-1850    171

BARRY McKAY          Niche Marketing in the Nineteenth Century:
                     The Shepherds' Guides of the Northern
                     Counties    191

GRAEME S. FORBES     The Edward Clark Collection at Napier
                     University Library, Edinburgh    207

Index                219




The background of the front cover is an engraved portrait of William Buchan (1729-1805) from a plate in Wonderful Museum (1803) (Reproduced by permission of The Wellcome Institute Library, London)