The mighty engine : the printing press and its impact

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The mighty engine : the printing press and its impact

edited by Peter Isaac and Barry McKay

(Print networks, 4)

St. Paul's Bibliographies , Oak Knoll Press, 2000

  • : uk
  • : us

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Includes bibliographical references and index

"Proceedings of the Seventeenth Seminar on the British Book Trade, Aberystwyth, July 1999"--Backcover

Contents of Works

  • 'Worthy of the poets and worthy of a gentleman' : publishing Gorchestion Beirdd Cymru (1773) / Rheinallt Llwyd
  • The Potter family of Haverfordwest, 1780-1875 / Chris Baggs
  • Pedlers & mercers as distributors of print in early-modern Wales / Richard Suggett
  • 'Business is awful bad in these parts' : new evidence for the pre-1914 decline of the Welsh-language book trade / Philip Henry James
  • George Nicholson and his Cambrian traveller's guide / Audrey Cooper
  • William Ford and Edinburgh cultural society at the beginning of the nineteenth century / Brenda Scragg
  • Advertising judiciously : Scottish nineteenth-century publishers and the British market / Iain Beavan
  • The coming of print to York, c1490-1550 / Stacey Gee
  • Sturdy rogues and vagabonds : restoration control of pedlars and hawkers / Maureen Bell
  • Printing at the Red-Well : an early Norwich press through the eyes of contemporaries / David Stoker
  • Canterbury's external links : book-trade relations at the regional and national level in the eighteenth century / David J Shaw
  • William Flackton, 1709-1798, Canterbury bookseller and musician / Sarah Gray
  • Books returned, accounts unsettled and gifts of country food : customer expectations around 1700 / Margaret Cooper
  • Newspapers in Huntingdonshire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Diana Dixon
  • Chapbooks & primers, piety, poetry & classics : the Mozleys of Gainsborough / Jim English
  • John Ware, printer and bookseller of Whitehaven : a year from his day-books, 1799-1800 / Barry McKay
  • Some radical printers and booksellers of Leicester c1790-1850 / John Hinks
  • Book publishing from the English provinces in the late nineteeth century : a report on work in progress / John R Turner

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