The Beginnings of the Book Trade in Canada / George L. Parker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parker, George L., Author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Book industries and trade--Canada--History.

Book industries and trade.

Canada.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 346 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This first extensive history of Canada's early book trade begins with the impact of the Gutenberg printing revolution. Parker analyses the role of technological advances in printing, to the growing complexity of the book trade in the major cities up to the time in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

Contents:

Cover; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction; Canada before the Arrival of the Printing Press; 1 The Organization of the Pioneer Book Trade; Bookselling; Literacy and Education; the Newspaper Press and Authorship; the Printing Office; 2 The Quest for a Colonial Literature; The Native Author and Newspaper Printer-Publishers; 3 Bookselling from 1820 to; Libraries and Mechanics' Institutes; Foreign Reprints and Imperial Copyright; the Textbook Trade; 4 The Mid-Century Revolution in Printing Technology; The Newspaper Press Comes to the North-West and to the Pacific Coast.

The Book Production Industry in the Eastern Provinces5 Building a National Publishing Industry; International Copyright and Foreign Reprints; Subscription Publishing; Textbook Production; 6 Towards a Compromise; International Copyright; the Manufacturing Clause; Authorship; Conclusion; NOTES; Appendix A; The Growth of the Printing and Allied Trades 1867-1900; Appendix B; Exports: Statistics Based on the Annual Trade and Navigation Returns 1867-1900; Appendix C; Imports: Statistics Based on the Annual Trade and Navigation Returns 1867-1900; Appendix D; A Selected List of Copyright Acts.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-7778-8

OCLC:

1129185455