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Bookscape : geographies of printing and publishing in London before 1800 / James Raven.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Raven, James, 1959- author.
- Series:
- Panizzi lectures ; 2010.
- The Panizzi lectures ; 2010
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Publishers and publishing--England--London--History.
- Publishers and publishing.
- Printers--England--London--History.
- Printers.
- History.
- England--London.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 208 pages, 31 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : The British Library, 2014.
- Contents:
- 1 Places and Transformations 1
- Of space, trades and scapes 3
- Books beyond boundaries 7
- 2 The Evidence 13
- Changing identifiers 13
- Eighteenth-Century traces 17
- Locations 30
- 3 Antient Sites and Reconstructions 39
- Successions 44
- Places and products 47
- 4 Versatility and the Gloomy Stories of Literature 57
- Property envy 58
- Stability and change 61
- Judging mobility 65
- 5 Conversible Men and Mighty Trade 70
- Early trade 72
- Glory days 77
- A new century 81
- Printers and co-operation 84
- 6 Unexpected Declines 86
- Final entrants 89
- Vanishing Presences 90
- Conyers, Ballard and finis 94
- 7 East and West in the City 97
- Cornhill 98
- Fleet Street 108
- Place and reputation 113
- Dr Johnson's Community 117
- 8 Publishing and Printing: The Fleet to the Strand 121
- A Scots diaspora 125
- Industry, Strahan and Richardson 131
- 9 Industry, Fashion and Pettifogging Drivellers 136
- Conclusion: Mapping a Bookscape 144.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-194) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780712357333
- 0712357335
- OCLC:
- 872979617
- Publisher Number:
- 99959302510
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