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Order Nr. 59394 THE MIGHTY ENGINE: THE PRINTING PRESS AND ITS IMPACT. Peter Isaac, Barry McKay

THE MIGHTY ENGINE: THE PRINTING PRESS AND ITS IMPACT.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. 8vo. Hardback printed covers. 218 pages. This fourth volume in the Print Networks series salutes the impact of the printing press. Taken from the proceedings of the Seventeenth Seminar on the British Book Trade held in Aberystwyth in July 1999, this collection of scholarly essays covers the regulation of printed matter and its distribution, the preservation of Welsh language and culture in print, and various aspects of printing..... READ MORE

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List of Contributors vii 

Editorial ix

RHEINALLT LLWYD      'Worthy of the poets and worthy of a gentleman':
                     Publishing Gorchestion Beirdd Cymru (1773) 1

CHRIS BAGGS          The Potter Family of Haverfordwest, 
                     1780-1875 13

RICHARD SUGGETT      Pedlars & Mercers as Distributors of Print in 
                     Early-Modern Wales 23

PHILIP HENRY JONES   'Business is Awful Bad in these Parts':New Evidence for 
                     the Pre-1914 Decline of the Welsh-Language Book 
                     Trade 33

AUDREY COOPER        George Nicholson and His Cambrian Traveller's 
                     Guide 43

BRENDA SCRAGG        William Ford and Edinburgh Cultural Society at the
                     Beginning of the Nmeteenth Century 57

IAIN BEAVAN          Advertising Judiciously: Scottish Nineteenth-Century
                     Publishers and the British Market 69

STACEY GEE           The Coming of Print to York, c1490-1550 79

MAUREEN BELL         Sturdy Rogues and Vagabonds: Restoration Control of 
                     Pedlars and Hawkers 89

DAVID STOKER         Printing at the Red-Well: an early Norwich Press 
                     through the Eyes of Contemporaries 97

DAVID J SHAW         Canterbury's External Links: Book-Trade Relations at 
                     the Regional and National Level in the Eighteenth 
                     Century 107

SARAH GRAY           William Flackton, 1709-1798, Canterbury Bookseller 
                     and Musician 121

MARGARET COOPER      Books Returned, Accounts Unsettled and Gifts of 
                     Country Food: Customer Expectations around 
                     1700 131

DIANA DIXON          Newspapers in Huntingdonshire in the Eighteenth and 
                     Nineteenth Centuries 143

JIM ENGLISH          Chapbooks & Primers, Piety, Poetry &. Classics: the 
                     Mozleys of Gainsborough 153

BARRY McKAY          John Ware, Printer and Bookseller of White haven: a 
                     Year from his Day-books 163

JOHN HINKS           Some Radical Printers and Booksellers of Leicester 
                     c1790-1850 175

JOHN R TURNER        Book Publishing from the English Provinces in the late 
                     Nineteenth Century: Report on Work in Progress 185

Index 197



(Frontispiece) Engraved title-page of Young's Night Thoughts (London, 1780) - reduced to 92% (see pp 153 sqq) 
Reproduced by kind pemlission of N J L Lyons