Printers and Men of Capital: Philadelphia Book Publishers in the New Republic

by Rosalind Remer

Book Overview

An important phase in the American book trade's shift from colonial craft work to nineteenth-century big business took place in the early national period, as printers began to take on the risks of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812233379
• ISBN13: 9780812233377
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"