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Light on the book trade : essays in honour of Peter Isaac / edited by Barry McKay, John Hinks, and Maureen Bell.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Seminar on the British Book Trade (19th : 2001 : Oxford, England)
- Series:
- Print networks ; 6.
- Print networks ; 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Book industries and trade--Great Britain--History--Congresses.
- Book industries and trade.
- Printing--Great Britain--History--Congresses.
- Printing.
- Books--Great Britain--History--Congresses.
- Books.
- History.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life--Congresses.
- Great Britain.
- Intellectual life.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 224 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press ; London : The British Library, 2004.
- Contents:
- Peter Isaac: a Landmark Removed / Barry McKay ix
- The History of the English Provincial Book Trade: a research agenda / John Feather 1
- 'For no text is an island, divided from the main' Incunable Sammelbande / Lucy Lewis 13
- Freeman and Susannah Collins and the Spread of English Provincial Printing / David Stoker 27
- Taking Stock: The Diary of Edmund Harrold of Manchester / Michael Powell 37
- Books in Eighteenth-Century Whitehaven / Barry McKay 51
- From George III to Queen Victoria: a provincial family and their books / David Hounslow 61
- Print, Privilege and Piracy in the Book of Common Prayer / David N Griffiths 73
- John Gregory and the 'Leicester Journal' / John Hinks 85
- Literary Institutions in the Lake Counties Part IV: Catalogues / John Gavin 95
- Influential and Mysterious: The Career of Septimus Prowett: Bookseller, Publisher and Picture Dealer / Margaret Cooper 107
- Typography in Nineteenth-Century Children's Readers: the Otley Connection / Caroline Archer, Sue Walker, Linda Reynolds 119
- Baker's Juvenile Circulating Library in Sydney in the 1840s / Wallace Kirsop 131
- Staying the Course: the Edinburgh Cabinet Library, 1830-1844 / Iain Beavan 141
- Paths Through the Wilderness: Recording the History of Provincial Newspapers in England / Diana Dixon 153
- James Everett and the Sale of Adam Clarke's Library, 1833: a newly discovered manuscript / Brendaj Scragg 165
- Thomas Gee Senior / Philip Henry Jones 175
- False Imprints and the Bridger Specimen Books / Rj Goulden 189
- Charles Elliot's Book Adventure in Philadelphia, and the Trouble with Thomas Dobson / Warren McDougall 197.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1584560851
- 0712347976
- OCLC:
- 50204261
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